Five on the Black Hand Side
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Initial DVD release October 16, 2001 Duration | 6.4/10 Genre Comedy Music by H. B. Barnum Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 25, 1973 Cast (Mrs. Brooks), (Mr. Brooks), (Ruby), (Gideon), (Preston), Ja'net DuBois (Stormy Monday)Similar movies Interstellar , 27 Dresses , Independence Day , Sex Tape , Corpse Bride , Just Go With It |
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Five on the Black Hand Side is a 1973 comedy film based on the play by Charlie L. Russell. It was shot in Los Angeles, California. Leonard Jackson appeared as John Henry Brooks. He was cast in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple fifteen years later. Tagline: "You've been coffy-tized, blacula-rized and super-flied - but now you're gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride... when you see Five on the Black Hand Side."
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- Five on the black hand side trailer blaxploitation
- H b barnum five on the black hand side soundtrack fun lovin arrives blaxploitation 1973
- Plot
- In pop culture
- Cast
- References

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Plot

During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children; Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfield) finally decides to stand up to their overbearing husband and father Mr. John Henry Brooks Jr. (Leonard Jackson) who displays retrogressive behavior.
In pop culture

This relationship between the two parents in this movie got parodied in a skit of the same name on the comedy series In Living Color. The film went into limited release in theaters, but helped launch the careers of Glynn Turman and Ja'net DuBois: he did films and TV, landing mostly African-American characters, leading to the role of Bradford Taylor on the TV Show A Different World and she became famous as Willona on the TV hit Good Times.
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