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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Academy Award-nominated Viola Davis (best supporting actress, Doubt, 2008), Octavia Spencer, and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous, and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project - one that breaks society's rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor, and hope - and complete with compelling, never-before-seen bonus features - The Help is a timeless, universal, and triumphant story about the ability to create change.

Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington. When two Supreme Court Justices are assassinated, a law student stumbles upon the truth. 1993/color/141 min/PG-13.

Make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they've affectionately nicknamed "Crooklyn". Renowned director Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life that People Magazine calls his "most affectionate work." Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard stars as Carolyn, a loving, but fiercely independent mother who along with her musician husband (Delroy Lindo) struggles to raise her family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances. Complemented by an energizing, vintage R&B soundtrack, this tender, colorful film is a fitting tribute to an American family. Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Jose Zuniga, Isaiah Washington, Ivelka Reyes, N. Jeremi Duru, Patriece Nelson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tse-Mach Washington, Carlton Williams, Christopher Knowings, Sharif Rashed Directed by: Spike Lee

Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney. A 110-year-old African-American woman recalls her life as a slave, her role in the Civil War and her views on the 1960s civil rights movement. 1974/color/110 min/NR/EP.

Academy Awardr nominee Robert Downey Jr. and Academy Awardr winner Jamie Foxx star in an extraordinary and inspiring true story of how a chance meeting can change a life. The Soloist tells the poignant and ultimately soaring tale of a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who discovers a brilliant and distracted street musician, with unsinkable passion, and the unique friendship and bond that transforms both their lives. The remarkable performances make for an unforgettable experience in what is hailed as 'a courageous and uncompromising film.' (Gene Shalit, Today).

Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Martin Balsam, Donald Sutherland. Tension mounts as a fierce battle of wits escalates aboard a U.S. Navy ship trailing Russian subs in the North Atlantic. 1965/b&w/102 min/NR/widescreen.

Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Spike Lee, John Turturro. Directed by Lee. The events of a single hot day on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street lead to boiling tempers and racial tensions on explosive levels. 1989/color/120 min/R/widescreen.

Cicely Tyson, Will Geer, Robert Hooks. The life story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. 1978/color/3 hrs., 20 min/NR.

Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won’t change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are. Ain’t nothing like family!

A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed, and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life. Based on the popular Tyler Perry stage production of the same name.