Product Details

• Actors: Queen Bey, Nadine Griffith, Isaac Hayes, Kaycee Moore, Byron Myrick
• Directors: Kevin Willmott
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unicorn Video
• VHS Release Date: October 19, 1999
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JYX0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,737 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KILLER LOOK, January 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Ninth Street (DVD)

As an independent film, I am amazed at how well the Ninth Street team captured the essence of Junction City during the 60s. Black and white helps this along, but things were correct through and through. From a narrative standpoint, Ninth Street kept my interest with gritty reality and believable dialogue. Yet, overall I felt that I was there and was able to move on to enjoy the story... this is something Hollywood seems to miss over and over (see Titanic).

Check out Ninth Street! You'll dig it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ninth Street is a gem, August 12, 2001

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Martin J. Keenan (Great Bend, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ninth Street [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Ninth Street" is a real gem. Martin Sheen and Isaac Hayes are featured in Director Kevin Willmott's first feature-length film. The film deals poignantly and humorously with a whole litany of issues----race issues, the Vietnam War, the military/ industrial complex, Christianity, and other hot-button issues. Kevin Willmott brilliantly recreates life in his hometown of Junction City, Kansas in the late 1960's. In particular, the movie chronicles life on "Ninth Street," a notorious street known as "the Harlem of Kansas." This strip of black-owned taverns, pool halls and other businesses was wildly popular with G.I.'s at local Fort Riley. Soldiers around the world knew about life on Ninth Street. The plot revolves around on ongoing dialogue of two old-timers----Bebo and Hudie---who lament the fact that Ninth Street has declined from it's glory days when they were young G.I.'s. This movie will make you laugh and make you cry. It has layer after layer of symbolism and meaning. In the spirit of pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, Kevin Willmott portrays the lives of African-Americans with honesty and passion. Although the buildings on Ninth Street have been razed and are now only a memory, Willmott has preserved this unique time and place in a funny yet deeply serious film.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's real, December 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ninth Street (DVD)

Having witnessed an Army town bar district as a young man I found so much that reminded me of those times and people. The actor who plays Bebo offers a truly amazing performance. This movie offers to all of us a witness of those who while flying low have a good deal of humor and wisdom.