Watermelon Man (1970)

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• Great Nudity!
• Genres Comedy, Drama
• Director Melvin Van Peebles
• Rated R
• Theatrical Release May 27th, 1970
• US DVD Release September 14th, 2004
• Country USA

A bigoted white man makes the unlikely conversion to a brother in Melvin Van Peebles’s uproarious race-relations satire Watermelon Man (1970). The star and director of blaxploitation classic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) tackles racism head-on in a film that centers on a Kafka-esque transformation. Godfrey Cambridge plays a wisecracking salesman who wakes up one morning with a new shade of skin. Flummoxed … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review

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