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Baadasssss!
Directed by
Mario Van Peebles
R
2005
1h 48m
Drama
,
Biography
7.3
91%
84%
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Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).
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Cast of Baadasssss!
Mario Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles
Joy Bryant
Priscilla
Khleo Thomas
Mario
T.K. Carter
Bill Cosby
Terry Crews
Big T
Ossie Davis
Granddad
David Alan Grier
Clyde Houston
Nia Long
Sandra
Paul Rodríguez
Jose Garcia
Saul Rubinek
Howard Kaufman
Rainn Wilson
Bill Harris
Don Dowe
Officer
John Singleton
Detroit J
Vincent Schiavelli
Jerry
Karimah Westbrook
Ginnie
Len Lesser
Manny & Mort Goldberg
Sally Struthers
Roz
Jazsmin Lewis
Working Girl
Adam West
Bert
Robert Peters
Bob Maxwell
Glenn Plummer
Angry Brother
Khalil Kain
Maurice
Pamela Gordon
Ethel
Wesley Jonathan
Panther
Joseph Culp
Attorney
Mandela Van Peebles
Angel Muse
Kate Krystowiak
Moonbeam
Bill Cosby
himself
Baadasssss! Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Schwartz
Mario's done a good job of depicting Melvin's accomplishments. Yet it seems to me that he's still selling his father's legacy short.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
A reminder that good intentions don't always make for good movies.
Seattle Times
Mark Rahner
A great glimpse inside an artist's struggle. That is, an artist's funky, nasty struggle.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
What it lacks in focus, it makes up for in energy and commitment.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Full of itself, as fiercely independent as it should be and primed with real passion, Baadasssss! is a salute to an imperfect man, a history of an imperfect time and a celebration of an imperfect film that kicked doors open.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
More nuanced and displays far more filmmaking finesse than Mario's previous films as a director.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the best movies I've seen about the making of a movie.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Mario lacks the finesse as a filmmaker to deliver the nuanced portrait his father deserves, but he largely succeeds: We see Melvin as a flawed man, but one who worked for something larger than himself.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
It's hard to imagine that the chronicle of an artistic ordeal could be this much fun to watch.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A color-saturated celebration of cinematic pleasure and filial love.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Seethes with well-targeted humor that mixes comfortably with its simmering energy and anger.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A sobering and wildly entertaining account of how the elder Van Peebles crashed through the hurdles that continue to hinder independent filmmakers.
The New Yorker
David Denby
It's an exhausting, and exhaustingly pleasurable, entertainment.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A lively, absorbing, often uncannily authentic docudrama.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
It works as a biopic, as a truly American story, and as a sentimental, but never cloying, gift from son to father -- and from father to son.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
You don't need to have seen the father's movie to enjoy the son's, a multitiered fantasia that's part cinema history, part family reunion, and all hall of mirrors.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
One is very glad to have Baadasssss! around, if only to remind younger moviegoers that taking chances and breaking rules can reap huge dividends.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Baadasssss! is one bad movie -- and I mean that in the most affectionate sense.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A tour-de-force by Mario Van Peebles, who not only does an uncanny impression of his cocky and often unsympathetic father, but briskly directed and wrote the insightful screenplay (based on his father's memoirs) with Dennis Haggerty.
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Baadasssss Scene: Ta Da
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Baadasssss Scene: We're Sold Out
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Baadasssss Scene: We Got Arrested
Baadasssss Scene: We Got Arrested
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Baadasssss Scene: You Gotta Cancel
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Baadasssss Scene: Psychedelic Party
Baadasssss Scene: Psychedelic Party
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Baadasssss: Teaching The Boy About Work
Baadasssss: Teaching The Boy About Work
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Baadasssss Scene: I Shoulda Known Better
Baadasssss Scene: I Shoulda Known Better
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Baadasssss Scene: I Can't Be In The Movie
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Baadasssss Scene: Tell Me About The Movie
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Baadasssss Scene: No Crew Has Ever Looked Like This
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