Summary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAM

Summary: After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields, only to discover that his mother, Viola, is the woman of her most unpleasant nightmares. Viola is a recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola becomes determined to scare off her son's new fiancée by becoming the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD M

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON

Summary: A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PLE