Five On The Black Hand Side

Starring:Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin, Fred D. Scott, Bonnie Banfield, Frankie Crocker, Jean Taylor (IV), Kwasi Badu, Carl Franklin, Philomena Nowlin, Ja'net DuBois, Brenda Sutton, Imamu Sukuma, Cal Wilson, Sonny Jim Gaines, Tchaka Almoravids, Ronald Warden, Douglas Johnson
Director: Oscar Williams
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Well meaning but dated and corny movie
"A Time of Innocense"
Somebody Give me Five on the Black Hand Side!!!!!
Real good family film
really tight film

Five On The Black Hand Side
Starring: Clarice Taylor , Leonard Jackson , Virginia Capers , Glynn Turman , and D'Urville Martin
Director: Oscar Williams
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005N7Z5
Release Date: 2001-10-16

Description

You've been Coffy-tized, Blacula-rized and Superflied. Now prepare to be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride with this "breakthrough film" (Variety) that delivers "enough solid laughs forany audience" (Boxoffice)! 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!

Customer Reviews:

Well meaning but dated and corny movie .......2007-04-09

Being a fan of obscure quality African American cinema I figured I would give Five on the Black hand Side a try. After buying the title and attempting to sit through the movie 1.5 times, I found it rather dull and boring and overly corny. The movie lacks the energy and charisma that other African American classics like Cooley High have. Alot of the humor seems forced and invokes very little laughter.

The movie definately presents African Americans in a positive light compaired to other 70's African American films. Unfortunately, the movie just has no entertainment value and its black consciouness does not help the movie above it's lethargic flow. I really wanted to support or like this movie on the merit of the issues presented but I simply could not. I am sure themes presented in the movie could possibly be done with a more entertaining result.

Perhaps its because of a generation gap since the movie was done well before my birth? Somebody that lived in the seventies era might enjoy it much more than myself.

"A Time of Innocense".......2007-04-07

This film harks back to a time when africentricity was woven into the psyche of the younger generation. Blackness informed all of their life decisions and defined their aesthetic. This is definitely true of the younger generation in this film. Another dynamic at play in this film is a sort of intergenerational upheaval. Some members of the older generation were reconsidering their long held beleifs on what it meant to be Black in America while the rest of the older generation stood firm staunchly defending their fossilized ideals. So if you're in the mood to see a comedic family film with a post sixties revolutionary air view "Five On the Black Hand Side" and breathe in the culture!

Somebody Give me Five on the Black Hand Side!!!!!.......2005-08-12

I had a chance to see this movie over this past weekend and I must say I found this movie very funny and at the sametime very powerful. I had saw a little bit of the movie like a month ago and from the little part I saw I thought the movie was boring until I found out that my girl Ja'Net DuBois (I'm a huge fan of hers!!!) was in so I had to see it again and once I saw it from beginning to end I feel in love with the movie. The interactions b/w Ruby and Stormy Monday were funny as heck and Mr. Brooks attitude towards his wife was just straight NASTY!!!! I'm glad that Gladys had came to her senses to tell Mr. Brooks that she wasn't going to take his stuff nomore and that she was out if he didn't start treating her like a human being instead of like an animal so I was glad that he got his stuff together too. Sad to say that its men out there who treat their women like the way Mr. Brooks does Gladys in the movie and much worser and there is many women who doesn't have the courage that Gladys had to tell him enough was enough. Anyways I also enjoyed Marvin and Gails wedding it was a very beautiful wedding and my girl Stormy Monday a.k.a Ja'Net DuBois looked so Beautiful in her dress and her hair was cute had all the men looking at her when she made her toast but all in all I really enjoyed this movie alot!!!!

Real good family film.......2005-01-12

During the 70s, when Blaxpoitation films were of the norm, you had such films as this, "Amazing Grace" and of course, "Cooley High". In this film, you had a family about to marry off their only daughter in a Afrocentric wedding ceremony that the father disapproves of; Matter of fact, the father is a barber who goes to work in suits(with the appropriate smock put on at work). Consults an organizer(as well as his wife's); and is as tight reined with his family as he is with himself; He's got one son out of his house and living on the roof and being afrocentric; the other son cannot get with no one but white women; He dictates to his wife(Clarice Taylor, later known as Cosby's mom on the Cosby show) as to what to wear as well as what to do, and she is SICK of it!! so she hatches a plan along with her friends(Virginia Capers and Janet DuBois later of "Good Times") to demand a list of things that she want from her husband; Oh, and then is when the good times roll!! Good family film; a bit dated but real good;

really tight film.......2004-03-22

films like this tackled so many issues&covered a wide array of subject matter.very much on point Soul Film.a film like this in the early 70's still isn't brought to light in the modern era of film making&find that ironic.very well written&a really good film.

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