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Black and White (1999/I)

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Overview

Director:
James Toback
Writer (WGA):
James Toback (written by)
Release Date:
5 April 2000 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Music | Thriller more
Tagline:
What happens when you mix it up? more
Plot:
A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Not so real more

Cast

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexuality, graphic language, some violence and drug use.
Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
SDDS | Dolby Digital
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Continuity: Dean is described repeatedly as a "star point guard." Actually, like the actor (a star basketball player in real life), Dean is a shooting guard who sometimes also plays small forward. more
Quotes:
Kim: Sometimes you just don't wanna be what your race is supposed to be. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Xchange (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Angel Baby more

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Not so real, 7 May 2006
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Author: paul2001sw-1 (paul2001sw@yahoo.co.uk) from Saffron Walden, UK

Hip-hop is not just a style of music, for it comes associated with an attitude, an attitude that notoriously does not wholly reject the ghetto from which it springs. Whether the music, and culture, should thus be seen as the free expression of the dispossessed, or as one of the chains tying them down, is this a moot point (though it's worth noting that every revolution in popular music over the last half-century has been seen by respectable society as the end of the world). 'Black and White' is a celebrity-studded collection of small stories about characters living the hip-hop life, its focus on the interplay of the white community with this essentially black form of music. It's not badly executed, although it's hard to get very interested in any of the characters. One peculiarity, though, is how little hip-hop there actually is on the soundtrack, a strange vacuum at the heart of the film; also, we see little in the way of everyday life in the world from which the music emerged. The result is watchable, but there are no real insights, sociological or musical, to be had.

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