The Five Heartbeats : Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry Lennix, Tico Wells, Diahann Carroll, Harold Nicholas, Tressa Thomas, John Canada Terrell, Chuck Patterson, Hawthorne James, Roy Fegan, Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend

Description Robert Townsend, Diahann Carroll, Harry J.

Lennix.

Actor-director Robert Townsend co-wrote and starred in this amazing story of a fictional black male quintet in the '60s.

After researching a real group, the Dells, he brilliantly depicted the typical issues that most black groups confronted in pre-Civil Rights America.

1991/color/121 min/ R.