Baadasssss! / Sony Pictures Classics, Showtime Independent Films presents a MVP Filmz production ; screenplay by Mario Van Peebles & Dennis Haggerty ; produced and directed by Mario Van Peebles.
Joy Bryant, T.K. Carter, Terry Crews, Ossie Davis, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Saul Rubinek, Vincent Schiavelli, Khleo Thomas, Mario Van Peebles, Karimah Westbrook, Rainn Wilson. Based on the memoir Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song by Melvin Van Peebles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. Special features: commentary with Mario and Melvin Van Peebles; featurettes titled The birth of black cinema and The premiere; interview with Melvin Van Peebles.
Summary:
"Mario Van Peebles' candid portrait of his father Melvin's struggle as a young, black director during the socially-shifting early '70s. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin ... deals with two-faced backers, a rag tag crew, threatening creditors and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy. Obsessed and with everything on the line ... his only choice is to stick to his guns and do whatever it takes to get his neo-blaxploitation epic Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song to the audience for which it was envisioned"--Container.
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