Genre: Drama, Comedy, Hollywood, Satire, Tragedy, Disturbing
Tagline: Starring the great negroe actors
Plot: Damon Wayans stars as Pierre Delacroix, a hip, young, Harvard-educated writer who is the sole person of color working for an upstart network with floundering ratings. Despite several attempts, Delacroix has yet to see any of his concepts go into production. Now his boss, the ratings-hungry, culture-vulture Dunwitty (Michael Rappaport), issues him a searing ultimatum: come up with a hot, trend-setting, headline-making, urban hit or get fired.Feeling doomed, Delacroix decides to present the most outrageous, unbelievable farce of stereotypical comedy he can imagine - hearkening back to the old days of "black-face" minstrels with a variety show featuring Manray (Savion Glover), a homeless tap dancer, and his sidekick Womack (Tommy Davidson). Incredibly, Delacroix's spoof turns into a ratings bonanza, a cultural phenomenon that has the media pundits raving and audiences of all types howling. But, for Delacroix, the runaway success of "Mantan The New Millennium Minstrel Show" is the start of a rapid unraveling. Despite trying to defend his hit show, Delacroix comes under attack from all sides, not least if all from his own beautiful assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett Smith), who is falling for Manray, and her radical hip hop rapper brother Big Black. Delacroix's ratings keep
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Damon Wayans
The Last Boy Scout, Roxanne, Look Who's Talking Too |
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Booty Call, Juwanna Mann | | Paul Mooney
In the Army Now, The Buddy Holly Story, The Comedy Store: The E! True Hollywood Story | |
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