Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man

1970 · 100 min · EN · R · 6.3 (43 votes)
Dir. Melvin Van Peebles · Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland, Erin Moran · Music Melvin Van Peebles

His white bread world just turned upside brown!

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Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.

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This film feels like a jarring, uncomfortable, yet darkly funny social experiment. It’s a satirical gut-punch that forces you to confront prejudice through a bizarre, reality-bending lens. An unsettling and thought-provoking watch.

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