Bamboozled

Oct 6, 2000

2h 16m

★ 6.2

A Spectacular Film by Mr. Spike Lee

Overview

Frustrated 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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Bamboozled Trailers

Cast

Pierre Delacroix

Damon Wayans

Manray / Mantan

Savion Glover

Sloan Hopkins

Jada Pinkett Smith

Womack / Sleep'n Eat

Tommy Davidson

Thomas Dunwitty

Michael Rapaport

Honeycutt

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Junebug

Paul Mooney

Verna

Gillian White

Orchid Dothan

Susan Batson

Mau Mau: Big Blak Afrika

Yasiin Bey

Mau Mau: 1 / 16th Blak

M.C. Serch

Mau Mau: Double Blak

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