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Bamboozled
Directed by
Spike Lee
R
2000
2h 16m
Drama
,
Comedy
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and more
6.7
54%
74%
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Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
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Cast of Bamboozled
Damon Wayans
Pierre Delacroix
Savion Glover
Manray / Mantan
Jada Pinkett Smith
Sloan Hopkins
Tommy Davidson
Womack / Sleep'n Eat
Michael Rapaport
Thomas Dunwitty
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Honeycutt
Paul Mooney
Junebug
Gillian White
Verna
Susan Batson
Orchid Dothan
Yasiin Bey
Mau Mau: Big Blak Afrika
M.C. Serch
Mau Mau: 1 / 16th Blak
Gano Grills
Mau Mau: Double Blak
Canibus
Mau Mau: Mo Blak
DJ Scratch
Mau Mau: Jo Blak
Charli Baltimore
Mau Mau: Smooth Blak
Craig muMs Grant
Mau Mau: Hard Blak
Dormeshia Sumbry
Pickaninny: Topsy
Tyheesha Collins
Pickaninny: Aunt Jemima
Cartier Williams
Pickaninny: Lil'nigger Jim
Jason Bernard
Pickaninny: Jungle Bunny
Baakari Wilder
Pickaninny: Sambo
Sekou Torbet
Pickaninny: Rastus
Questlove
Alabama Porch Monkeys: Levi - Musical Director
Tariq Trotter
Alabama Porch Monkey
James 'Kamal' Gray
Alabama Porch Monkey
Leonard 'Hub' Hubbard
Alabama Porch Monkey
Kyle 'Scratch' Jones
Alabama Porch Monkey
Christopher Wynkoop
Massa Charlie
Jani Blom
Jukka Laks
Dina Pearlman
Myrna Goldfarb
Imhotep Gary Byrd
Himself
Al Sharpton
Himself
Matthew Modine
Himself
Mira Sorvino
Herself
Arthur J. Nascarella
Police Chief
Liza Jessie Peterson
Ruth (Casting Director)
Don Ezzard Peavy II
Auditioning Dancer
Tony Arnaud
Auditioning 'Digeroo-Doo Player'
Tuffy Questell
Auditioning Singer
David Wain
Bunning
Ron Lawrence
Mau Mau's Engineer
Al Palagonia
Bobby
Mildred Clinton
Louise
Ephraim Benton
Tre
Tanesha Marie Gary
Stacy
Shannon Walker Williams
Young Black Woman
Matthew Cole Weiss
Young White Man
Coati Mundi
Papo
Caridad 'La Bruja' De La Luz
Cuca
Rodney "Bear" Jackson
Stage Security Guard
Rafael Osorio
Stage Security Guard
Anna Hsieh
Joan
Kris Park
Fish
Cheryl Lynn Bowers
Mona
Julie Dretzin
Beth
Steven McElroy
Seth
Stephen Kunken
David
Katie MacNichol
Anna
Joshua Weinstein
Kirk
A.D. Miles
Aaron
Daniel Milder
Peter
Jason Winther
Jeff
Ed Onipede Blunt
CNS Security Guard
Renton Kirk
CNS Security Guard
Kim Director
Starlet
Conni Freestone
Starlet
Rayietta Hill
Hottie
John Wallace
Dawg
Arthur Thomas
Dawg
Lisa Ferreira
Da Bomb Girl
Kiki Haynes
Da Bomb Girl
Judah Jacobs
Da Bomb Girl
Light Eyes
Da Bomb Girl
Chyna
Da Bomb Girl
Luz Whitney
Da Bomb Girl
Danny Hoch
Timmi Hillnigger
Sarah Jones
Dot
Bert Williams
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
O. J. Simpson
Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Bamboozled Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Provocative Spike Lee movie for older teens.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
It is an inspired but difficult film that poses many questions and takes almost everyone to task, yet offers few suggestions as to what is to be done with this infamous legacy.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Savage, abrasive, audacious and confrontational, Bamboozled is the work of a master provocateur.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
Audacious, vibrant, unsurprisingly maligned but frequently brilliant.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media-and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is basically sloppy, all-over-the-map filmmaking with few hints of self-criticism and few genuine laughs.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
If Mr. Lee meant to bring back blackface entertainment as a metaphor for the current black performers he finds obnoxious, he has miscalculated.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You won't look at race onscreen the same way again.
Newsday
John Anderson
Subtlety, thy name is not Spike Lee.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
A seriously schizophrenic work made up of two incompatible movies.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Robert Philpot
For all its messiness and meandering ... Bamboozled is impossible to dismiss.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The fact that Lee has some compelling and interesting points to make can't make up for the movie's sluggishness, artlessness and lack of anything like originality.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
People's feelings run too strongly and deeply for any satirical use [of blackface] to be effective. The power of the racist image tramples over the material and asserts only itself.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nothing Lee has done is as flashy or as mucked up as Bamboozled.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Spike Lee challenges our preconceptions, and dares us, as Malcolm X did in the quote from which this film's title derives, not to be bamboozled.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A rousing, vital, important experience.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Goes too far in the wrong direction and not far enough where you want it to.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A near masterpiece ambiguously balanced between brilliance and incoherence.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The most outrageous and disturbing movie Spike Lee has made to date, Bamboozled works only about half the time, perhaps even less.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Features scenes that are strong, confrontational and flat-out brave enough to salve the frustration of sketchy characters and a narrative that spirals out of control.
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