Film
Hollywood Shuffle
- Director
- Robert Townsend
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 79 mins
Robert Townsend directs and stars in this zero-budget 1987 comedy about Hollywood’s habit of stereotyping African-Americans as pimps, muggers, rapists and slaves. He plays Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor trying to get a part in street gang drama Jivetime Jimmy’s Revenge, wrestling with his conscience as the white director tells him to be “more black”. The film repeatedly cuts to Bobby’s hilarious fantasies about how much better things might be – and how much worse. It’s cheapness sometimes lets it down, but its enthusiasm, quickfire gags and sheer good humour are immensely infectious.
The Watershed’s screening will be introduced by writer/curator Adam Murray of Come The Revolution.
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