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MRS. HARRIS DVD
Despite the popularity of the Dr. Tarnower's revolutionary "lose one pound per day" diet, the womanizing ways of the Casanova cardiologist would soon come to a brutal end at the hands of his jealous, prescription drug-addicted lover Jean Harris (Annette Bening). Driven to despair after their fourteen-year romance failed to result in marriage and enraged by Dr. Tarnower's shameless status as a ladies man, Harris confronts her former lover in one violent, final act of desperation.
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This innovative fusion of scripted film, combined with real and fictional
documentary footage, brings a watershed moment in Civil Rights history
to vivid life for contemporary viewers. As seen in an unusual multimedia
format, Boycott dramatizes the true events that were triggered in
Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks (Iris
Little-Thomas) was arrested after refusing to surrender her seat
in a "whites only" section of a public bus.
Using Parks' courageous act as a rallying cry, a group of black leaders
in the city quickly organized a boycott of Montgomery buses. Led by
a charismatic young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jeffrey
Wright), the city's black community refused to ride public buses,
opting instead to walk or car-pool to their destinations. The boycott
was tested by extreme pressure from city officials, acts of violence
that included the bombing of King's home, and the eventual indictment
of King and over 100 other black leaders.
Yet the boycott held, and on November 13, 1956 nearly a year
after Parks' defiant act the Supreme Court struck down the
city's bus-segregation laws as unconstitutional. The Montgomery boycott
ended victoriously after 381 days and the Civil Rights movement
found its leader in Martin Luther King, Jr.
In retelling the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the film uses
innovative production techniques to speak to today's young audience,
combining a talented cast and accessible script with multimedia imagery,
verite camera work (color and black and white), documentary footage,
and a pulsating score. The result sets Boycott apart from any other
film ever made about America's Civil Rights movement; it tells the
story from inside the movement, shedding light on the different interests
and personalities that shaped it.
More than the story of Rosa Parks, Boycott is a portrait of the practical
evolution of the non-violent ideologies of young leaders like Martin
Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy (Terrence Howard), seen
here as vulnerable young men filled with as many doubts as they have
convictions. This powerful film vividly evokes the tension, energy
and excitement of a unique episode in American history. Jeffrey Wright,
Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder and Carmen Ejogo co-star in this ground
breaking drama directed by Clark Johnson.
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