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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Theatrical Version, Trailers
The best example of urban guerilla filmmaking is ironically and happily also one of Hollywood's most triumphant success stories. Actor Robert Townsend (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!), decrying the lack of good roles for black actors, puts his money where his mouth is and co-scripts (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), directs and stars in this "exuberant, tirelessly energetic, funny, appealingly mean-spirited and easy-to-like" comedy (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) that took Tinseltown by storm!Actor wannabe Bobby Taylor (Townsend) dreams of landing a role any role. But in a town where the best black roles are usually jive-talkin' gangsta stereotypes, Bobby learns that you have to make your own parts even if they're just in your head. Spoofing everything from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Eddie Murphy to Siskel & Ebert, Bobby's vivid imagination and Hollywood Shuffle are "an exhilarating blast" (New York)!System Requirements:Running Time: 81 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
A would-be actor 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.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Mono - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 6/4/2002 |
| Running Time: 81 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 1002211 | | UPC: 00027616864420 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...An exuberant satire....Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow..." 03/20/1987 p.C8Variety
"...Brimming with imagination and energy....[The] film is entertaining..." 03/18/1987 Los Angeles Times
"...HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE is boisterous, out-at-the elbows movie making....There are wonderful comic moments here..." 04/24/1987 p.C1 |
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