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Bamboozled
Sign in to saveBamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, and Michael Rapaport.
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6.3Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
Cast
- Damon Wayans as Pierre Delacroix
- Savion Glover as Manray / Mantan
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Sloan Hopkins
- Tommy Davidson as Womack / Sleep'n Eat
- Michael Rapaport as Thomas Dunwitty
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd as Honeycutt
Themes
- race politics
- tv ratings
- racism
- blunt
- political satire
- backfire
- blackface
- dramedy
- minstrel show
- independent film
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Key facts
- Film.gross
- $2.5 million
- Film.name
- Bamboozled
- Film.image
- Bamboozled-2000-posterimg.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Spike Lee
- Film.producer
- Jon KilikSpike Lee
- Film.writer
- Spike Lee
- Film.music
- Terence Blanchard
- Film.cinematography
- Ellen Kuras
- Film.editing
- Sam Pollard
- Film.studio
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
- Film.distributor
- New Line Cinema
- Film.runtime
- 135 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $10 million
- Album.name
- Bamboozled
- Album.type
- soundtrack
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 135
- FilmAffinity ID
- 632245
- Official website
- www.bamboozledmovie.com
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- publication date
- 2001-05-10
- title
- Bamboozled
- review score
- 5.6/10
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- Soundtrack
- Track listing
- Reception
- Critical response
- Box office
- Home media
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Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, and Michael Rapaport.
The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000 and was released on DVD the following year. Critical reception was mixed, and the film was unsuccessful financially, becoming a box office bomb. Despite its initial reception, Bamboozled later achieved cult film status for its satirical look at stereotypical depictions of black people in both historical and contemporary American film and television productions, and, in 2023, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."