Bamboozled

Movie

2000

2h 16m

English

Comedy, Drama

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6.8

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Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

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Bamboozled

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2000

2h 16m

English

Comedy, Drama

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Cast

Pierre Delacroix

Manray / Mantan

Sloan Hopkins

Womack / Sleep'n Eat

Thomas Dunwitty

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Honeycutt

Junebug

Verna

Orchid Dothan

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M.C. Serch

Mau Mau: 1 / 16th Blak

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Mau Mau: Mo Blak

Mau Mau: Jo Blak

Mau Mau: Smooth Blak

Mau Mau: Hard Blak

Pickaninny: Topsy

Pickaninny: Aunt Jemima

Cartier Williams

Pickaninny: Lil'nigger Jim

Jason Bernard

Pickaninny: Jungle Bunny

Baakari Wilder

Pickaninny: Sambo

Sekou Torbet

Pickaninny: Rastus

Questlove

Alabama Porch Monkeys: Levi - Music...

Tariq Trotter

Alabama Porch Monkey

James 'Kamal' Gray

Alabama Porch Monkey

Directed By: Spike Lee

Written By: Spike Lee (Screenplay)

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mansemat says...

4 years ago

This movie is what happens when you give a first year college student that's trying to be edgy the chance to make a real movie. The quality of the film is awful but that's artsy right? The sound is all over the place but that's innovating right? The scenes and camera angles are awkward but that's rebellious. The acting is mediocre but that's just taste. This movie, like most of Spike Lee's movies, was not for me.-

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The_Argentinian says...

3 years ago

Spike Lee was talking about 21 years ago what people are talking about today.

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Thargok says...

4 years ago

This is an interesting movie with an interesting message that accidentally becomes a Spike Lee movie at the end - which means it stumbles over it's own message and breaks into a prolonged montage. You should watch it, I'm glad I did, but I probably won't watch it again.

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throatsprockets says...

3 years ago

A unique, angry near-masterpiece.

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JC230

8/10 3 years ago

It’s amazing the reviews that called this heavy handed and overwrought when the same _year_ Jimmy Fallon was doing blackface on SNL. When this predicted the Chappelle Show three years later, Chappelle leaving due to the wrong people laughing six years later, and Chappelle becoming Delacroix today, More

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