2000 · comedy · drama
Bamboozled
Directed by Spike Lee2h 16m2000
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
Our read: Bamboozled (2000) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
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