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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 with The 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 Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, 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.
Original Release
10/06/2000
US Release
10/06/2000
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Damon Wayans | Pierre Delacroix |
Savion Glover | Mantan / Manray |
Jada Pinkett Smith | Sloan Hopkins |
Tommy Davidson | Sleep'n Eat / Womack |
Michael Rapaport | Thomas Dunwitty / Dunwitty |
Thomas Jefferson Byrd | Honeycutt |
Paul Mooney | Junebug |
Sarah Jones | Dot |
Gillian White | Verna |
Susan Batson | Orchid Dothan |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Damon Wayans | Pierre Delacroix |
Savion Glover | Mantan / Manray |
Jada Pinkett Smith | Sloan Hopkins |
Tommy Davidson | Sleep'n Eat / Womack |
Michael Rapaport | Thomas Dunwitty / Dunwitty |
Thomas Jefferson Byrd | Honeycutt |
Paul Mooney | Junebug |
Sarah Jones | Dot |
Gillian White | Verna |
Susan Batson | Orchid Dothan |
Yasiin Bey | Mau Mau: Big Blak Afrika / Big Blak Afrika |
M.C. Serch | Mau Mau: 1 / 16th Blak / Mau Mau: 1-16th Blak |
Gano Grills | Mau Mau: Double Blak / Double Blak |
Canibus | Mau Mau: Mo Blak / Mo Blak |
DJ Scratch | Mau Mau: Jo Blak |
Charli Baltimore | Mau Mau: Smooth Blak / Smooth Blak |
Craig muMs Grant | Mau Mau: Hard Blak |
Dormeshia Sumbry | Pickaninny: Topsy |
Tyheesha Collins | Pickaninny: Aunt Jemima |
Cartier Williams | Pickaninny: Lil'nigger Jim |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Spike Lee | Producer |
Kisha Imani Cameron | Producer |
Jon Kilik | Producer |