Baadasssss!

[2004, Movie, R, 108 mins]

Baadasssss!: Review

Melvin Van Peebles helped open Hollywood's studio system to African-American filmmakers, paving the way for the next generation of black writers and directors including his own son, model-handsome actor-director Mario. Mario repays him with this remarkably clear-eyed adaptation of his father's memoir about making the incendiary Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, one of the most successful independent films of all-time and the first blaxploitation picture. Read the complete review for Baadasssss!

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Year: 2004
Rated R

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Mario Van Peebles: Melvin Van Peebles
Joy Bryant: Priscilla
T.K. Carter: Bill Cosby
Terry Crews: Big T
Ossie Davis: Granddad
David Alan Grier: Clyde

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Baadasssss!: TV Guide News

Mario Van Peebles Has Soul | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/16/2004
In his new film Baadasssss! (out this week on DVD), director Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City) explores his father Melvin's real-life struggle to make the 1971 flick Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song. Back in the day, his dad's movie was right on the cutting edge of the blaxploitation trend and the upcoming indie-filmmaking boom. Here, Van Peebles (who not only directs, but also plays his father in Baadasssss!) gives TV Guide Online the lowdown on the current state of soul cinema and how one .. read more
Soaps News | 6/2/2004
Nia Long (ex-Kat, GL) stars in Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles' (ex-Doc, OLTL) re-created homage to his father Melvin's s read more
Soaps News | 5/28/2004
Nia Long (ex-Kat, GL) stars in Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles' (ex-Doc, OLTL) re-created homage to his father Melvin's s read more

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