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Release Date: 2000 Cast: Kim Director, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Mos Def, Damon Wayans, Sarah Jones, Savion Glover, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Michael Rapaport
Categories: Movies, Media Satire, Indie, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Satire, Black comedy, Music 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 "nigger" repeatedly in conversations, he also proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix and that he can use nigger 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
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