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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

  • 20052005
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 25m
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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005)
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Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.

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  • Director
    • Joe Angio
  • Writer
    • Joe Angio
  • Stars
    • Marva Allen
    • Emanuel Azenberg
    • Shelley R. Bonus
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  • Director
    • Joe Angio
  • Writer
    • Joe Angio
  • Stars
    • Marva Allen
    • Emanuel Azenberg
    • Shelley R. Bonus
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    • 5User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Marva Allen
    • Selfas Self
    Emanuel Azenberg
    • Selfas Self
    Shelley R. Bonus
    • Selfas Self
    St. Clair Bourne
    • Selfas Self
    Herschel Dwellingham
    Herschel Dwellingham
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Hershel Dwellingham)
    Janine Evrad
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Janine Euvrard)
    Gébé
    • Selfas Self
    Dick Hehmeyer
    • Newsreel Narratoras Newsreel Narrator
    • (voice)
    Gloria Jarecki
    • Selfas Self
    Henry Jarecki
    • Selfas Self
    Billy Jennings
    • Selfas Self
    Woodie King Jr.
    • Selfas Self
    Spike Lee
    Spike Lee
    • Selfas Self
    Madeleine Martineau
    • Selfas Self
    Richard Milner
    • Selfas Self
    Elvis Mitchell
    Elvis Mitchell
    • Selfas Self
    Brent Nichols
    • Selfas Self
    Gordon Parks
    Gordon Parks
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    • Director
      • Joe Angio
    • Writer
      • Joe Angio
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    Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
    • melvin van peebles
    • watermelon
    • sweetback
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    • Genre
      • Documentary
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      • Unrated
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      Featured in SexTV: Shafted: The Story of Blaxploitation Cinema (2006)

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    8/10
    Smart, funny doc about a one-of-a-kind person
    Very entertaining, often funny biography of the amazing Melvin Van Peebles, whose life includes writing successful novels in French, directing hit, uncompromised black films at a time when no one else was, directing Broadway musicals, and even a turn as a stock trader.

    A wild, likable, if hard to figure out man, part genius, part showman and a bit of a con-artist, he seems (at least in this documentary) to have mellowed over the years.

    Not quite a great film, it's not in depth enough, and is too openly enamored of it's subject, but a fun and historically interesting one. I'd re-visit it.
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    • Dec 30, 2010

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    • Release date
      • April 7, 2005 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Jak zjeść arbuza w towarzystwie białych i mieć z tego uciechę
    • Production company
      • Breakfast at Noho LLC
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      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
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