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Plays as part of our original series Burn Hollywood Burn! The Films of Melvin Van Peebles.
Brand new digital restoration! Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance as a loudmouthed, bigoted white insurance salesman whose sitcom-like suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes up to discover that he has become a Black man.
What ensues is a ferocious satire of society’s racist double standards that gradually transforms into an empowering portrait of awakening Black consciousness. An incredible mix of hilarious irreverence and deadly serious political commentary by a relentlessly subversive Melvin Van Peebles.