Five On The Black Hand Side - Godfrey Cambridge Warm & Funny movie DVD

With "a combination of seriousness and warmth that is rare in anyfilm" (Players) and a sense of family that anyone can relate to; "Five on the Black Hand Side" is "a wisely entertaining film" (New York)! In the Brooks family; Papa may rule with an iron fist but Mama's about to slap him down with her open hand! Tired of being told what to do and when to do it; she goes to war! Swapping her old housedress for army green duds and combing her tidily coiffed head into a ceiling-scraping 'fro; she takes to the roof on strike until her browbeating; penny-pinching; gas-passing husband agrees to meet her bill of rights! Blaxploitation. Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman. 96 min. English.