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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404952928
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404952926
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1SpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Baadasssss! is actor-writer-director Mario Van Peebles's best film since 1991's New Jack City; more accurately, it is a mature and often dazzling work beyond previous expectations of Van Peebles' skills as a filmmaker. Certainly he was inspired by the autobiographical subject: The making of his father's 1971, independently produced Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, in which young Mario made his acting debut amidst a frantic, high-pressure operation that paid off when African American audiences embraced the film. Playing his ownhard-nosed dad, Melvin Van Peebles, the younger talent explores--honestly, but not ruthlessly--Melvin's rocky relationship with an ever-disappointed Mario (played by Holes' Khleo Thomas), but he also portrays the elder man as a stubborn idealist against a backdrop of Hollywood cynicism about black entertainment. The film is a whirlwind of action and innovative scenes recreating personal history but without the insistent discursiveness of memory. With Nia Long, Ossie Davis, and Saul Rubinek. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
This is an interesting and well done film for anyone into the story of the early days of Earth, Wind & Fire and the evolution of black entertainment of the 60s on. Mario and Mandela van Peebles do an amazing job of playing out the story of the older father son combo that started it all.
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Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, recounts the numerous challenges that had to be overcome before the 1971 black exploitation movie, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, was released. Indeed, it must be conceded that his father is a gutty man. Few would have risked so much to achieve their artistic vision. Unfortunately, Melvin's heroic efforts don't justify the finished product. The senior Van Peebles is the unintentional progeny of D.W. Griffith who some fifty years earlier had glorified the Ku ... Read More
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"Baadasssss" is not only a highly entertaining drama about guerrilla filmmaking, but also is a tribute from its director Mario Van Peebles to his father Melvin Van Peebles, star and director of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" that shook the movie industry in 1971 by becoming a surprise hit. Not just a hit, but a hit that set a new trend.
Greatly supported by black audiences who related to Melvin's titular hero on the run from the cops, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" was hugely ... Read More
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I AM 32
YOU ARE VERY FINE AND A GREAT ACTOR AND FILM MAKER!
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
YOUR FATHER IS GREAT!
I AM SO GLAD TO SEE HIM ALIVE AND WELL!
SORRY ABOUT THE PASSING OF YOUR SISTER!
THIS MOVIE IS A FIVE STAR MOVIE!
*****
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Most cinephiles will tell you that, as a rule, the making of any good film isn't fun, but a lot of pain and hard work. The topic of writer-director Mario Van Peebles' Baadassss! is the making of another film, Melvin Van Peebles 1971 blaxploitation "classic" Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song. If the aforementioned rule meant that a film that was made through hard work was automatically good, then Sweetback would have certainly ranked up on the charts with Citizen Kane. Sweetback was made with so much ... Read More
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