Product Details

• Actors: Ulysses Zachary, John Beasley, Mary Alice, Jay Brooks, Edna Duncan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 10, 2001
• Run Time: 156 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302968186
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,853 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the director of ' 'Devil In A Blue Dress' ' comes a drama of life as lived in the inner city. The passion, violence, heartbreak, truth and love of Laurel Avenue.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous: All TV dramas should be this good, August 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Laurel Avenue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a realistic depiction of a Minneapolis black family's struggles -- WITHOUT corny melodrama and bad overacting. Great acting by, among others, Carl Franklin -- the director of the great independent film "One False Move" -- and fine background music from Minneapolis-grown Mint Condition. To tell you more about the plot would spoil things -- BUY IT! Also, collaborators Paul Aaron and Michael Henry Brown worked on the new Omar Epps-LL Cool J film In Too Deep, a police-action film that's not getting great reviews. But Laurel Avenue makes up for any shoddy work.