Soul Brothas n Sistas - Vol. 2

THE RIVER NIGER:

An all-star cast performs in this film adaptation of the Tony Award® winning off-Broadway hit play. In this gripping, intimate look at life in the ghetto, Johnny Williams (James Earl Jones) is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie (Cicely Tyson). But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny’s love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in The River Niger.

THE FINAL COMEDOWN:

Before the days of Affirmative Action, the best man didn’t always get the job. This is the case for a man named Johnny (Billy Dee Williams), who loses out to an under-qualified white man when they both go after the same job. Enraged by the injustice of it all, Johnny joins a radical group of extremists. This isn’t the first time that Johnny has endured the malicious torment of prejudice, but he’s going to make sure that it’s his last…

MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS:

When Johnny Barrows (Fred Williamson), an officer in the U.S. Army is set-up by racist fellow officers during a training mission, he is dishonorably discharged from his duties. But returning to civilian life isn’t easy for Johnny, and the only work he can find is at a gas station—until he is approached by the local mob and offered a job as a hired assassin. But on his first assignment everything goes awry when one of the gangsters, Tony Da Vinci (Roddy McDowall), starts an all-out gang war—with Johnny caught right in the middle.

LADY COCOA:

Lady Cocoa (Lola Falana) is one mischievous mama and she’s paying for her sins by doing time in the big house. But it seems the lady’s luck is changing when she’s offered twenty-four hours of freedom in exchange for her testimony against her ex-boyfriend, a bad-to-the-bone drug-dealing pimp. She agrees, testifies, and then is released from prison. But as soon as they let her loose, the FBI realizes that they made one bad mutha of a mistake.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 7 November, 2009