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Release Date: 2000

Cast: Savion Glover, Damon Wayans, Kim Director, Mos Def, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Tommy Davidson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sarah Jones, Michael Rapaport, Paul Mooney

Categories: Movies, Music, Black Comedy, Media Satire, Satire, Comedy, Indie, Drama Film, Comedy-Drama

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success. The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000, and was released on DVD the following year. Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan), (Damon Wayans) is an uptight, Watts University-educated black man, working for a television network known as CNS (for "Continental Network System"). At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas... MORE

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success. The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000, and was released on DVD the following year. Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan), (Damon Wayans) is an uptight, Watts University-educated black man, working for a television network known as CNS (for "Continental Network System"). At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), a tactless, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty talk like an urban black male, and use the word "cracker" repeatedly in conversations, he also proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix and that he can use nigga since he is married to a black woman and has two mixed race children. Dunwitty frequently rejects Delacroix's scripts for TV shows that portray black people in positive, intelligent scenarios, dismissing them as "Cosby clones". Facing the necessity of either coming up with a hit black-centric show or being fired, Delacroix decides to aim for the LESS