Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)

 

Release date: October 25, 1973

Director: Oscar Williams

Writer: Charlie L. Russell

Starring: Leonard Jackson, Clarice Taylor, Glynn Turman

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​Mr. Brooks (Leonard Jackson) is an African-American barbershop owner who runs his household with an iron fist. One day, however, Mrs. Brooks (Clarice Taylor) tires of his stern approach and embraces a nonconformist attitude that's more in line with that of their children, including the philosophical Booker T. (D'Urville Martin) and Gideon (Glynn Turman), a black militant. Soon a battle of wills erupts in the Brooks household, and no one is going to readily back down.