Bamboozled | |
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Directed by | Spike Lee |
Written by | Spike Lee |
Produced by | Jon Kilik Spike Lee |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
Edited by | Sam Pollard |
Music by | Terence Blanchard |
Production company | |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $10 million |
Box office | $2.5 million[1] |
Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, and Michael Rapaport.
The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000 and was released on DVD the following year.[2] Critical reception was mixed,[3][4] and the film was unsuccessful financially, becoming a box office bomb.[1] Despite its initial reception, Bamboozled later achieved cult film status for its satirical look at stereotypical depictions of black people in both historical and contemporary American film and television productions.[5][6][7][8][9]
In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[10]
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