A surprisingly likeable farce that suggests a cross between BULWORTH and 8 MILE; it's not as smart as the former, but it's considerably funnier than the latter. Spoiled rich kid Brad "B-Rad" Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) — a character first seen on TV's
JKX: The Jamie Kennedy Experiment — has never been outside the Malibu city limits but, like over-privileged hepcats from time immemorial, is obsessed with black (in this case, hip-hop) culture. The difference is that B-Rad is convinced that he actually
is black, a delusion which leads his therapist (Jeffrey Tambor) to observe that he's never seen a worse "case of gangsta-phrenia." B-Rad's delusions ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins