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Writer (WGA):
James Toback (written by)
Release Date:
5 April 2000 (USA)
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Tagline:
What happens when you mix it up? more
Plot:
A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd. full summary | add synopsis
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Hip Hop
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New York City
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Gangster
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Sex
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Basketball Player
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Scarlett Johansson's orange sexier than ones found in Time Inc. cafeteria
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 13 November 2009, 11:12 AM, PST)
Photo Flash: Not Black and White's Detaining Justice
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 5 November 2009, 1:49 PM, PST)
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 13 November 2009, 11:12 AM, PST)
Photo Flash: Not Black and White's Detaining Justice
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 5 November 2009, 1:49 PM, PST)
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Toback's best movie since FINGERS
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Scott Caan | ... | Scotty |
 | Robert Downey Jr. | ... | Terry Donager |
 | Stacy Edwards | ... | Sheila King |
| Allan Houston | ... | Dean Carter |
 | Gaby Hoffmann | ... | Raven |
| Kidada Jones | ... | Jesse |
 | Jared Leto | ... | Casey |
 | Marla Maples | ... | Muffy |
 | Joe Pantoliano | ... | Bill King |
 | Bijou Phillips | ... | Charlie |
| Oliver 'Power' Grant | ... | Rich Bower (as Power) |
| Raekwon | ... | Cigar |
 | Claudia Schiffer | ... | Greta |
 | William Lee Scott | ... | Will King |
 | Brooke Shields | ... | Sam Donager |
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Rated R for strong sexuality, graphic language, some violence and drug use.
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Runtime:
98 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) |
Canada:R (Ontario) |
Finland:K-16 |
Singapore:(Banned) |
South Korea:18 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:MA |
Chile:18 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Spain:18 |
UK:18 |
USA:NC-17 |
USA:R (certificate #36809) (cut) |
Iceland:16
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Claudia Schiffer had to have her ears pierced specially for the large hoop earrings worn by her character in this movie.
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Continuity: Dean is described repeatedly as a "star point guard." Actually, like the actor (a star basketball player in real life), Dean is a shooting guard who sometimes also plays small forward.
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Cream Team Anthem
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It's the one Tobackonists have been waiting for since the thrill of his debut movie FINGERS--a movie with the soar and rush of obsession that also has the sanity and craft of a grown man. This movie about the uneasy millennium-era relationship of black and white people in America is not, as many people have said, a work of moony White Negroism. It resembles one of Godard's mid-sixties essay-movies like MASCULINE FEMININE or TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, but with race substituted for sexual politics, and with a heavy dose of pornography and melodramatic pulp. Toback keeps cranking up the heat as the cast--a conceptual-art demonstration of stunt casting--leaves the audience openmouthed.
Bijou Phillips is a wonder as the wigga-talkin' Upper East Side chiclet who proclaims, "I wanna be black--I'm a kid in America." Ben Stiller, as a tormented dirty cop, gives the performance of his life in a high-speed monologue of self-analysis that's like a speed freak's channeling the essence of Robert Downey, Jr. The great man himself appears here as well, as a gay artist who comes on to Mike Tyson (playing himself) at a party. The scene of violence that ensues should have James Toback clinking a glass in celebration in the mirror: he managed to top the Jim Brown/Tisa Farrow head-smashing sequence in FINGERS. Brooke Shields is an amazement as a fervent, sincere documentarian with dredlocks--she's like a deadpan version of the Geraldine Chaplin character in NASHVILLE, and Shields astonishes.
Toback wants to cram everything into this bird's eye view of race--sexual fantasies, money machinations, the class strata of New York City. That none of the scenes is a dud, that the movie is beautifully shot and edited, that nothing feels merely "excessive," is a testament to the passion behind the camera. BLACK AND WHITE is a miracle to this viewer: it renewed my excitement and faith in movies at a moment when I felt it falling down.