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Watermelon Man (1970)

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