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White Man's Burden
Directed by
Desmond Nakano
R
1995
89m
Drama
,
Thriller
5.3
24%
36%
5.1
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In an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived disdain.
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Cast of White Man's Burden
John Travolta
Louis Pinnock
Harry Belafonte
Thaddeus Thomas
Kelly Lynch
Marsha Pinnock
Margaret Avery
Megan Thomas
Tom Bower
Stanley
Andrew Lawrence
Donnie Pinnock
Bumper Robinson
Martin
Tom Wright
Lionel
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Roberta
Judith Drake
Dorothy
Carrie Snodgress
Josine
Steve Wilcox
1st Youth at Hot Dog Stand
Jason Kristofer
2nd Youth at Hot Dog Stand
Seth Green
3rd Youth at Hot Dog Stand
Alexis Arquette
Panhandler
Lawrence Bender
Bar Patron #1 / Producer
Kerry Remsen
Pregnant Woman at Bus Stop
Steve Larson
Bottle Thrower
Robert Gossett
John
Wesley Thompson
Williams
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White Man's Burden Ratings & Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
A wierd and ungainly mixture of obvious racial issues and pseudo-action material.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Doesn't go too far beyond the basic set-up.
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
The racial message is crystal clear and the concept of turning the tables on oppression is rather interesting. Unfortunately, the movie is never focused or convincingly solid to realize the cynicism in its meandering material. At best, "Burden" is merely
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Were it not for John Travolta's big-hearted portrayal of an unemployed white factory worker driven to commit a desperate act, the movie would be an emotionally frozen exercise in cautious high-mindedness.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Watching this movie is like watching Godfrey Cambridge's racial switcheroo in 1970's Watermelon Man -- without the laughs.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
No one looking for an action movie is going to choose this one. Equally obviously, no one interested in a film about racial stereotyping in America wants to sit through chase scenes.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
So simple, so broad are White Man's Burden's paint strokes ... that no real lesson outside of the obviously mundane can be elicited, and that's a real shame.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's undeniably fascinating to watch this hypothetical experiment for a while. But White Man's Burden starts to feel like an only-passable Twilight Zone episode stretched into a full-length movie.
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