It's Showtime (2000)

Movie
German title	It's showtime
Original title	Bamboozled
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	135 minutes
Rod
Director	Spike Lee
script	Spike Lee
production	Jon Kilik Spike Lee
music	Terence Blanchard
camera	Ellen Kuras
cut	Sam Pollard
occupation
Damon Wayans : Pierre Delacroix / Peerless Dothan Savion Glover : Manray / "Mantan" Jada Pinkett Smith : Sloan Hopkins Tommy Davidson : Womack / "Sleep 'n Eat" Michael Rapaport : Thomas Dunwitty Mos Def : Julius Hopkins / "Big Blak Africa" Thomas Jefferson Byrd : "Honeycutt" Paul Mooney : Junebug Gano Grills: "Double Blak" Canibus : "Mo Blak" Charli Baltimore : "Smooth Blak" MC Serch : "One-Sixteenth Blak" The Roots : The Alabama Porch Monkeys

It's Showtime is a 2000 film satire that was scripted and directed by Spike Lee . The film is about a minstrel show broadcast on modern television in which black actors blackface each other , and the violent effects of the show's success.

production

The film was shot on digital video ( mini DV ) with a Sony VX-1000 camera and later converted to film. This kept the budget of US $ 10 million. It was filmed with multiple cameras at the same time, which saves time. The minstrel show sequences were shot on 16mm film .

reception

The film received moderate reviews. Of 97 evaluated reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes meta site , the film received only 47% positive ratings, with an average point rating of 5.4 / 10.

At the box office, the film flopped and at US $ 2.46 million, only about a quarter of the investment cost.

Web links

• It's Showtime at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• It's Showtime at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bamboozled , rottentomatoes.com (English), accessed on February 3, 2016.
2. ^ Robert F. Moss: Was Al Jolson 'Bamboozled'? - Los Angeles Times , Articles.latimes.com. October 20, 2000. Retrieved February 3, 2016.