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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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Lumumba is the story of political leader Patrice Lumumba, a young man who quickly rose to power as Congo's first prime minister, to help lead his country to independence from Belgium in the late 1950s.
Lumumba's vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies: the Belgium authorities, who wanted a much more paternal role in their colony's affairs, and the CIA, who supported Lumumba's former friend Joseph Mobutu, in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and their upper hand in the Cold War power balance. During the tenuous first six months of Congo's independence when civil war threatened to erupt, Lumumba tried to quell hostilities but was eventually betrayed by Mobutu whom he had appointed as head of the army. In 1961 with several conspiracies occurring at once Lumumba met a brutal death - a mere nine months after becoming the country's first Prime Minister.
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