HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE - BLU

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: The best example of urban guerilla filmmaking is ironicallyand happilyalso one of Hollywood'smost triumphant success stories.; ; Actor Robert Townsend (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!), decrying the lack of good roles for black actors, puts his money where his mouth is and co-scripts (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), directs and stars in this 'exuberant, tirelessly energetic, funny, appealingly mean-spirited and easy-to-like' comedy (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) that took Tinseltown by storm! Actor wannabe Bobby Taylor (Townsend) dreams of landing a role any role. But in a town where the best black roles are usually jive-talkin' gangsta stereotypes, Bobby learns that you have to make your own partseven if they're just in your head. Spoofing everything from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Eddie Murphy to Siskel & Ebert, Bobby's vivid imaginationand Hollywood Shuffleare 'an exhilarating blast' (New York)!
• Cast: Robert Townsend; Craigus R. Johnson; Helen Martin; Starletta DuPois; Marc Figueroa; Sarah Kaite Coughlan; Sean Michal Flynn; Brad Sanders; David McKnight; Keenen Ivory Wayans; Lou B. Washington; Anne-Marie Johnson; Don Reed; Kim Wayans; Gregory 'Popeye' Alexander; Conni Marie Brazelton; Lorrie Marlow; Sena Ayn Black; Lisa Mende; Dom Irrera; Eugene Robert Glazer; Roy Fegan; Jesse Aragon; Bobby Mardis; Verda Bridges; Bobby McGee; Richard McGregor; Carl Craig; E.J. Murray; Nancy Cheryll Davis; Angela Teek; Tony Edwards; Grand L. Bush; Richard Cummings Jr.; Michael Smith; Michael Conn; Jimmy Woodard; Franklyn Ajaye; Damon Wayans; Michael Colyar; Donald Douglass; Christopher Jackson; Omar W. Hester; Kim Genelle; Larry Cortinas; Shirley Ann Jenkins; John Witherspoon; Jesse Kitten; Steve James; Nick Stewart; Le Tari; Greg Ilaye Hartwell; Jake Blackschmidt; Howard Allen; Steven Fertig; Michael LaViolette; Paul Mooney; Beverly Brown; Tamra Kaggar; Peter Krug; Brad Laven; Charles R. Edwards; Myra J.; Wren T. Brown; Tony Livingston; Kathleen Clark; Tammy Kaitz; Mark Westover; Robert R. Shafer; Nancy Scher; Stephen Adrianson; Jim Beaver; Tommy Morgan Jr.; Lydia Nicole
• Director: Robert Townsend
• Runtime: 1:21
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie