Directed by:
Spike LeeScreenplay:
Spike LeeCinematography:
Ellen KurasComposer:
Terence BlanchardCast:
Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Mos Def, Gano Grills, Johnnie Cochran (more)VOD (1)
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With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike. Under pressure to help revive his network’s low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface for a “new-millennium minstrel show.” The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public’s insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes. Shot primarily on unvarnished digital video and boasting spot-on performances from Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport, Mos Def, and Paul Mooney, Bamboozled is a stinging indictment of mass entertainment at the turn of the twenty-first century that looks more damning with each passing year. (Criterion)
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Damon Wayans
USA
Best movies:
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Punchline (1988)
Savion Glover
USA
Best movies:
Bamboozled (2000)
Jada Pinkett Smith
USA
Best movies:
Reign Over Me (2007)
Collateral (2004)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Tommy Davidson
USA
Best movies:
Black Dynamite (2009)
Bamboozled (2000)
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Michael Rapaport
USA
Best movies:
Sully (2016)
True Romance (1993)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
USA
Best movies:
Ray (2004)
Clockers (1995)
He Got Game (1998)
Mos Def
USA
Best movies:
Something the Lord Made (2004) (TV movie)
Cadillac Records (2008)
Monster's Ball (2001)
Gano Grills
Best movies:
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Hannibal (2001)
Bomb the System (2002)
Johnnie Cochran
USA
Best movies:
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Bamboozled (2000)
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Matthew Modine
USA
Best movies:
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USA
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USA
Best movies:
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Happiness (1998)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
David Wain
USA
Best movies:
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Bill Clinton
USA
Best movies:
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Tracy Morgan
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Yard (2005)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Rio (2011)
Cheryl Lynn Bowers
Best movies:
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Bamboozled (2000)
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A.D. Miles
USA
Best movies:
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Role Models (2008)
Danny Hoch
USA
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
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Matthew Cole Weiss
USA
Best movies:
Bamboozled (2000)
Standing Still (2005)
Kim Director
USA
Best movies:
Inside Man (2006)
Split (2016)
He Got Game (1998)