The Five Heartbeats

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.