Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LITSummary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOSummary: Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADFord, Glenn
Summary: An aging apple-seller pretends to be rich in order to help her daughter marry into a wealthy family, assisted by an assortment of gangsters in her comic charade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY POCSummary: A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue ad agency previously controlled by Whites and is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: P.S. Company 2006