Hollywood Shuffle R
Bobby Taylor was on his way to becoming a star, when a funny thing happened...
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DVD Details
- 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2015
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Townsend | |
Performer: | Keenen Ivory Wayans, Anne-Marie Johnson, Helen Martin, Starletta DuPois, John Witherspoon & David McKnight | |
Directed by | Robert Townsend | |
Music by | Patrice Rushen & Udi Harpaz | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Townsend & Keenen Ivory Wayans | |
Cinematography by | Peter Deming | |
Produced by | Robert Townsend | |
Executive Production by | Carl Craig |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Under the circumstances, Hollywood Shuffle is an artistic compromise but a logistical triumph, announcing the arrival of a new talent whose next movie should really be something.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The movie isn't perfect, but it provides some genuine laughs and some real food for thought.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Although haphazardly paced and scattershot in approach, when it works, this satire on Hollywood's attitudes toward African-Americans is downright hilarious.
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TV Guide
For a mere $100,000, Townsend and company have made a funny, poignant and technically proficient film -- one that should thoroughly embarrass those studios that routinely offer up badly made, multimillion-dollar disasters.
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Washington Post
Rating: B- --
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...An exuberant satire....Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow...
New York Times
...Brimming with imagination and energy....[The] film is entertaining...
Variety
Product Description:
Writer/director Robert Townsend stars as Bobby, a young African-American acting hopeful has a boss who thinks he's hopeless, a grandmother who wants him to work in the post office, a girlfriend who gives him blind faith, and the chance to play idiotic and insulting roles in terrible movies. He finds his budding career run aground by white producers guilty of perpetrating and perpetuating negative racial stereotypes. He has a series of comic fantasies about Hollywood's cruel history of image-making, stretching from shuffling happy slaves to clownish buffoons to gun-toting pimps. As the actor suffers through a series of often-demeaning auditions--and an even more demeaning part, once he's hired--he begins to question if he really wants to be a part of the business. A dead-on send-up of Hollywood's interminable parade of ethnic stereotypes.
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- Sales Rank: 45,011
- UPC: 887090097901
- Shipping Weight: 0.22/lbs (approx)
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