Hollywood Shuffle
starring: Gregory 'Popeye' Alexander, Sena Ayn Black, Conni Marie Brazelton, Sarah Kaite Coughlan, Starletta DuPois
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Hollywood
EAN: 9780792850311
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850319
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 23957
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 20, 1987
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The best example of urban guerilla filmmaking is ironicallyand happilyalso one of Hollywood'smost triumphant success stories. Actor Robert Townsend (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!), decrying the lack of good roles for black actors, puts his money where his mouth is and co-scripts (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), directs and stars in this 'exuberant, tirelessly energetic, funny, appealingly mean-spirited and easy-to-like' comedy (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) that took Tinseltown by storm! Actor wannabe Bobby Taylor (Townsend) dreams of landing a role any role. But in a town where the best black roles are usually jive-talkin' gangsta stereotypes, Bobby learns that you have to make your own partseven if they're just in your head. Spoofing everything from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Eddie Murphy to Siskel & Ebert, Bobby's vivid imaginationand Hollywood Shuffleare 'an exhilarating blast' (New York)!
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The alumni of Hollywood Shuffle are spread across dozens of current comedies and TV sitcoms--this is the movie that introduced Robert Townsend and the Wayans Brothers to the world. Townsend plays a young actor who struggles with being offered stereotyped street hustler roles while trying to maintain his self-respect and the approval of his family. Between scenes of comically humiliating auditions, Bobby has satirical fantasies about the plight of black actors, including the classic 'Black Acting School' sketch, in which white teachers demonstrate jive talk and street moves for the befuddled black students. Townsend has a charming, low-key comic style, one considerably more subtle than that of some of the black comics who have risen to success with supposedly self-aware renditions of the stereotypes Townsend mocks. Townsend made this movie on his credit cards and it is clearly a heartfelt labor of love. --Bret Fetzer
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- Classic ComedyMy husband and I watched this movie weekly for several months when it first came out. I still find ... Read More
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- Winky Dinky Delicious!lt could've used more Eddie Murphy type humor. You'll be BATTY BATTY BATTY over this tounge in cheek ... Read More
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- Boyfriend loved it, I thought it was okI brought this as a gift for my boyfriend. He loves it and qoutes it all the time. It's a classic. ... Read More
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- Get lost in this shuffleHollywood Shuffle is one of the best black comedies of all-time. It served as a big f--- you to Hollywood ... Read More
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- lessons learned in a comical styleSimply hilarious! Enough said. Well, not quite enough. Very tasteful too (somewhat). Ok, just watch it : ... Read More
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