Lawrence Parke

Godfrey Cambridge stars in this outrageous comedy directed by maverick filmmaker Melvin Van Peeples (Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song). Jeff Gerber (Cambridge) seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice suburban home, a progressive-thinking wife (Academy Award®-winner Estelle Parsons, Best Supporting Actress, Bonne and Clyde, 1967) and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man. The doctor's have no explanation and no cure for his sudden change. Suddenly, Gerber is a white bigot in black skin who has todeal with a shocked family, intolerant neighbors, cold shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus!

A bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a blackman! His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor, his neighbors want him to move so their property values won't drop, his wife takes the children and leaves and his boss' desires to capitalize on him as the man to tap the black insurance market.

A bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a blackman! His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor, his neighbors want him to move so their property values won't drop, his wife takes the children and leaves and his boss' desires to capitalize on him as the man to tap the black insurance market.

A bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a blackman! His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor, his neighbors want him to move so their property values won't drop, his wife takes the children and leaves and his boss' desires to capitalize on him as the man to tap the black insurance market.