Five on the Black Hand Side

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Glynn Turman, Godfrey Cambridge, Frankie Crocker, D'Urville Martin, Virginia Capers, Leonard Jackson, Ja'net DuBois, Clarice Taylor