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A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.
Oliver 'Power' Grant
- Rich Bower
- (as Power)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaMost of the script was improvised by the cast. Only Claudia Schiffer's part was fully scripted.
- Alternate versionsU.S. version was cut from its original NC-17 rating to be re-rated R.
- ConnectionsEdited into The N Word (2004)
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Don't buy the hype!
Black & White: a documentary director and her husband follows several upper middle class high school kids to try and comprehend why they have chosen to emulate black inner city hip-hop rappers.
What is intended to be an avante-garde-in-your-face mockumentary addressing serious sociological issues is a weak series of loosely interconnecting stories with poorly developed and uninteresting characters. The credits tout many big names - Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Brooke Shields among them - but the performances are lackluster at best: while Downey's stereotypical fey gay character borders on offensive, he can't compare with Mike Tyson's ludicrous attempts at philosophizing.
At least there are no shades of grey here - it is all bad.
What is intended to be an avante-garde-in-your-face mockumentary addressing serious sociological issues is a weak series of loosely interconnecting stories with poorly developed and uninteresting characters. The credits tout many big names - Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Brooke Shields among them - but the performances are lackluster at best: while Downey's stereotypical fey gay character borders on offensive, he can't compare with Mike Tyson's ludicrous attempts at philosophizing.
At least there are no shades of grey here - it is all bad.
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- Apr 7, 2000
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- Also known as
- Black and White
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,277,299
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,212,535
- Apr 9, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $5,541,431
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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