Cicely Tyson
1) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The heartwarming 'tail' of a young girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch she names Winn-Dixie. The special bond between them works magic on her reserved dad and the eccentric townspeople they meet during one unforgettable summer.
Publisher
Konigsberg/Sanitsky Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A TV miniseries which chronicles the life of a simple Southern girl who's thrown into adulthood when she marries a Civil War veteran haunted by nightmares of the war and carries her life up to her 100th birthday in a retirement home in the South where she recalls the events of her life.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Which way is up? (R): The story of an orange picker who accidentally becomes a union hero and leaves his wife and family at home while he seeks work in Los Angeles where he finds a new woman and starts a second family. Brewster's millions (PG): Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million...