Bamboozled (2-DVD) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 17, 2020
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson & Michael Rapaport | |
Performer: | Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, David Wain, Mos Def & The Roots | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Sam Pollard | |
Screenwriting by | Spike Lee | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Jon Kilik & Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Ellen Kuras |
Entertainment Reviews:
You won't look at race onscreen the same way again.
Rolling Stone
...where most of us in his audience will lean forward to hear a whisper, we turn away from a shout. Oh, how Bamboozled shouts.
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DVDJournal.com
Spike Lee has grabbed a tiger by the tail in his scabrously risky new comedy, BAMBOOZLED. The wonder is how long he succeeds in hanging on...
New York Times
Ranked #8 in Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman's BEST MOVIES OF 2000 -- ...Giddy with outrage, Lee tears off the mask of propriety and stomps up and down on it...
Entertainment Weekly
...Challenging....Brave and contentious...
Total Film
Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media-and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.
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New Yorker
Rating: 2/5 --
A particularly painful mess, because it begins so well and has such promise.
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eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
Spike Lee turns up the controversy notch once again with BAMBOOZLED, a sizzling satire on race and racism within the modern media world. Harvard-educated writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), the only black employee on the staff of a struggling television network, suggests the most absurd idea for a pilot that he can possibly imagine, hoping it will convince his tyrannical boss, Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), to terminate his contract and fire him. However, his plan backfires and his idea--MANTAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM MINSTREL SHOW--finds great success. The show is a stereotypical and racially charged depiction of the tap-dancing Mantan (Savion Glover) and Sleep 'n' Eat (Tommy Davidson), two lazy, homeless black men who spend their days in a watermelon patch. As the show becomes a national sensation, Delacroix, his assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett), as well as her older brother, aspiring rapper Big Black Af' (Mos Def), begin to see the harm the show is causing the community, triggering outbursts with deadly consequences. Shot on digital video, Lee uses his basic premise to mock and accuse today's entertainers (including Chris Rock, Ving Rhames, gangsta rappers, and Lee himself) for being modern reincarnations of the stereotypical caricatures that were so offensive in the past. The result is a biting commentary that is at turns hysterical, absurd, and poignant.
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- UPC: 715515242714
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