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Watermelon Man

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Release Date: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $24.96

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Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles

Featuring: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin

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(r)-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!

Year: 1970
Time: 100 min.