The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by John Korty
from Classic Media
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 7-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD
This 1973 television movie about 110 years of American history as seen through the eyes of a black woman from Louisiana (Cicely Tyson) is a terrific achievement, a window onto racism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Tyson gives a career performance as the title character, whose personal life is inextricably woven into the fabric of the African American struggle for equality. A mixture of the sentimental and the unflinching, this is the kind of educational experience that fully engages a viewer. --Tom Keogh
Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage (aka The Ewok Adventure) / The Battle for Endor
by Ken Wheat
from 20th Century Fox
Go Ask Alice
by John Korty
from Jef Films
A teenage girl's downhill spiral into drug addiction. A move to a new school in a new city puts great pressure on Alice a high school student. Hoping to be liked she tries desperately to be friendly with the school's "popular" students. Eventually she is invited to a party and she is introduced to drugs. This is a true story based on the actual diary of a teenage girl caught in the vicious web of drug addiction and her desperate fight back to the real world. William Shatner plays a role light-years removed from that of Captain Kirk in Star Trek and Jamie Smith-Jackson is utterly convincing as the young girl trying to cope with the humiliation which drug abuse can.System Requirements:Running Time: 73 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 018619109489 Manufacturer No: JEF10948
Resting Place
by John Korty
from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
The Haunting Passion
by John Korty
from Lance Entertainment
Jane Seymour is very much in her Victorian-lace Somewhere in Time mood here, although the action is set in the present day. She and her husband (Gerald McRaney as an ex-football stud, now impotent would-be sportscaster) move into a modern house overlooking a bay, but the new place is troubled by strange sounds and cold breezes. "Do you believe in ghosts?", she asks pal Millie Perkins, but Jane isn't complaining. Soon our overheated heroine is buying old frocks and taking long showers in the company of her ghostly lover, who provides her with considerably more physical attention than her husband can. Director John Korty, a TV-movie veteran, guides the low-key spookiness with a steady hand, although the final act slips into out-and-out romance-novel silliness. Mainly it's a vehicle for Jane Seymour, whose heart-shaped face and impossibly flowing hair are utilized for maximum romantic effect. --Robert Horton
A Christmas Without Snow
by John Korty
from Delta
Starting over again in a new city, a divorced woman joins a local church choir and clashes with the choirmaster. Pushed to her emotional limits, her faith is re-affirmed in this beautiful classic of the Christmas season.
Who Are The DeBolts? (And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?)
by John Korty
from New Video Group
Murder at Devil's Glen / The Haunting Passion
by Paul Shapiro
from Lance Entertainment
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by John Korty
from Classic Media
This 1973 television movie about 110 years of American history as seen through the eyes of a black woman from Louisiana (Cicely Tyson) is a terrific achievement, a window onto racism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Tyson gives a career performance as the title character, whose personal life is inextricably woven into the fabric of the African American struggle for equality. A mixture of the sentimental and the unflinching, this is the kind of educational experience that fully engages a viewer. --Tom Keogh
"One of TV's all-time best." -Leonard Maltin The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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.
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