"Actor: Cicely Tyson"

• Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £6.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (53.93%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce. Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives she meets Ninny Threadgoode an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

• Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) an overweight middle aged woman is in a rut. Her husband Ed ignores her and even his bedridden aunt throws blunt objects at her! But a chance encounter with a spry octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) leads to an unexpected friendship. Ninny tells Evelyn an absorbing story of two very different women who lived half a century ago in the town of Whistle Stop Alabama: the irrepressibly daredevilsih tomboy Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and the demure and good-hearted Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker). Together they ran the Whistle Stop Caf'' a railside eatery serving good old southern food as well as a good helping of friendship and laughter and even an occasional murder. The events of the past inspire Evelyn to make changes in her own dowdy life - the results are often hilarious in this endearing tale of friendship and courage.

• Diary Of A Mad Black Woman | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £6.85   |  Saving you £10.14 (148.03%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Perry's first film is a classic tale of a woman scorned with a notable twist. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) is the wronged wife summarily dumped by her attorney husband Charles (Steve Harris) after 18 years of marriage. Literally booted out of her Atlanta mansion Helen goes to live with her grandmother Madea (Tyler Perry) and begins the difficult process of rebuilding her life. Just as Helen has achieved a new sense of self-confidence through steady employment and new romance Charles suddenly reappears in her life in dire need of her help. For Helen it is a chance for revenge -- but also a chance for redemption through forgiveness.

• Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £4.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (26.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kathy Bates stars as an unhappy wife trying to get her husband's attention in this amusing and moving 1991 screen adaptation of Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. After befriending a lonely old woman (Jessica Tandy), Bates hears the story of a lifelong friendship between two other women (Mary Stuary Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker, seen in flashback) who once ran a cafe in town against many personal odds. The tale inspires Bates to take further command over her life, and there director Jon Avnet (Up Close and Personal), in his first feature, has fun with the film. Bates develops a real attitude toward her thickheaded spouse at home and some uppity girls in a parking lot, but dignity is generally the key to Avnet's approach with the story's crucial relationships. Tandy is a joy and clearly loves the element of mystery attached to her character, and Masterson and Parker are excellent in the historical sequences. --Tom Keogh

• Hoodlum | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoodlum, Bill Duke's interesting but flawed blaxploitation take on the classic gangster movie, usefully redresses a balance. It is all too easy to see the criminal underworld of the 1920s as an all-white affair, in which Harlem is an exotic locale where occasionally white gangsters patronise the black performers of the Cotton Club, from which black audiences were specifically barred. Yet one of the principal sources of illegal revenue was the numbers racket in Harlem--gambling on stock market closing figures--revenue on which the likes of Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano were keen to lay their hands. Lawrence Fishburne is an impressive "Bumpy" Johnson, the street enforcer turned strategist for the matriarchal Queen (Cicely Tyson), gradually learning a ruthlessness that forfeits him the love of a good woman, Francine (Vanessa Williams). Tim Roth as Schultz and Andy Garcia as Luciano are essentially melodramatic turns--the foul-mouthed punk and the reptilian smoothy--and both turn in enjoyably full-blooded unsubtle performances. --Roz Kaveney

• A Man Called Adam | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Drama starring Sammy Davis Jr. as professional jazz trumpeter Adam Johnson whose self destructive habits spiral out of control following the death of his family in a car accident. Meanwhile he is also experiencing the racial prejudices latent in the music industry and these issues are brought to the fore when he meets respected older jazz musician Willie Ferguson (Louis Armstrong) and his beautiful civil rights activist grand-daughter Claudia (Cicely Tyson).

• 3 Classic Award Winning Dramas - Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe / Sophie's Choice / On Golden Pond | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• A Man Called Adam | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £14.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the 1960s, talented jazz musician Adam (Sammy Davis Jr.) appears to have it all, but an inner anger and a tormented past threaten to destroy his career. When he meets jazz legend Willie Ferguson (Louis Armstrong), and falls in love with his granddaughter (Cicley Tyson), a straight-talking civil rights activist, Adam begins to question his lifestyle, and resolves to tame his drinking and wild behaviour. But despite his new-found love, Adam is haunted by the shadows of his past. Can he escape his demons, before they destroy him entirely?

• Firehouse Dog/ Because Of Winn-Dixie/ Good Boy | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £8.46   |  Saving you £1.53 (18.09%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titles Comprise: Firehouse Dog: Rex Hollywood's top-grossing canine is known for his extreme athletic abilities and diva-like demeanor. His perks package rivaling that of any A-list celebrity includes Kobe beef a poodle harem and a diamond collar. Rex's luck - and Hollywood high life - runs out while shooting a commercial; an aerial stunt goes awry leading Rex's handlers to presume he's dead. But Rex is merely lost - alone filthy and unrecognizable in an unfamiliar city. Chased by animal control he takes refuge in grubby abandoned lofts a far cry from his former luxurious lifestyle. Because Of Winn-Dixie: Discover what happens when you go looking for a miracle and a miracle comes looking for you... A 10-year-old girl (Robb) abandoned by her mother when she was three moves to a small town in Florida with her father (Daniels) a preacher. While there she adopts a stray dog whom she names after the local supermarket where he was found. With her goofy pooch by her side she meets an eclectic group of townspeople and rekindles an almost lost relationship with her father... Good Boy:Thousands of years ago a group of dogs who are actually aliens landed on Earth. They are sent as spies for their home planet Canid 3942 but as the years pass they forget all about their mission. When 12 year old Owen finally gets to have a dog of his own he discovers his new dog Hubble is actually an interplanetary scout from the Dog Star Sirius... Based on the story 'Dogs From Outer Space' by Zeke Richardson.

• The Women Of Brewster Place | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Women Of Brewster Place is a gripping and loving group portrait of seven women whose backs are literally against the wall: a surrounding wall whose brick facade has turned the address of Brewster Place into both a real and symbolic dead end. It is a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish. For the women who call this home (played by Oprah Winfrey Robin Givens and Cicely Tyson among others) Brewster Place is a source of conflicts amid the dark and overcrowded tenements. Despite their different backgrounds these women are ultimately united in a single act of courage against the walls of racism sexism and violence in a stirring climax.

• A Lesson Before Dying | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Louisiana 1948: Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) is wrongly accused of the murder of a white shopkeeper. Racial inequality at the time is so pervasive that the defense lawyer's argument at Jefferson's trial is that his client is not worthy of conviction. Outraged by this statement Jefferson's godmother enlists the reluctant aid of teacher Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) to teach him to ""be a man""...

• The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This highly acclaimed drama based on the epic novel by Ernest J. Gaines eloquently covers the story of the Black Experience-from the Civil War to the civil rights movement-all told from the memories of a fictional 110 year-old slave played by Cicely Tyson. Ms.Tyson's tour-de-force performance her most memorable earned her an Emmy. All total this incredible made-for-TV film earned nine Emmys including one for director Korty and one for Tracy Keenan Wynn's intelligent script.

• Hoodlum | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar nominees Laurence Fishburne Tim Roth and Andy Garcia set the screen ablaze in this riveting crime thriller exploding with spectacular gun battles and brutal action. In 1930s New York Bumpy Johnson rules the Harlem numbers racket with a rare combination of honour dignity and strength. But when savage gangster Dutch Schultz threatens his reign with a series of bloody attacks Bumpy knows that the only way to win is to play Dutch's deadly game. As a vicious war spins madly out of control so does Bumpy's personal life and soon the mobster realizes that his only way out is to instigate a dangerous plan involving one of the most feared and powerful gangsters in history... Mob chieftain Lucky Luciano.

• The White People's Fountain | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of a black woman who at 110 tells a New York reporter about her life as a slave and how she became a member of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.