Melvin Van Peebles helped open Hollywood's studio system to African-American filmmakers, paving the way for the next generation of black writers and directors — including his own son, model-handsome actor-director Mario — to make movies as shallow, bland and disposable as white filmmakers. Mario repays him with this adaptation of his father's memoir about making the incendiary SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971), one of the most successful independent films of all-time and the first blaxploitation picture. Hollywood, 1970: Having just directed the mainstream studio comedy WATERMELON MAN, Melvin Van Peebles (Mario Van Peebles) is a hot commodity. But he's not int...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins