In Baadasssss! 1970s blaxploitation cinema finally has its own Day for Night.
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06/25/04
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Baadasssss! (2004)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:95
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: An entertaining and intriguing tribute to a father from his son.
Theatrical Release:May 28, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $289,955
Synopsis: In "Baadasssss!" Mario Van Peebles pay tribute to his dad, pioneer black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. The Movie dramatically recounts the saga of what his father went through more than 30 years... [More]
Starring: Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, David Alan Grier, Mario Van Peebles
Director: Mario Van Peebles
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Reviews for Baadasssss!
A reminder that good intentions don't always make for good movies.
06/24/04
Top Critic... so charged with love and a kind of astonished admiration that it would be small and unkind to dwell on its moments of clumsiness.
08/25/04
What it lacks in focus, it makes up for in energy and commitment.
06/17/04
Top CriticSeethes with well-targeted humor that mixes comfortably with its simmering energy and anger.
07/03/04
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05/31/05
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07/14/07
You don't need to have seen the father's movie to enjoy the son's, a multitiered fantasia that's part cinema history, part family reunion, and all hall of mirrors.
06/04/04
It makes you wish a documentary had been made instead of a docudrama.
06/04/04
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06/12/04
If the crude style of Sweetback worked to its advantage, the same case can't be made for Van Peebles fils' erratic docudrama.
06/18/04
There's something both heroic and devilishly smart in the way the film lionizes the utopianism of the '60s while chronicling its demise.
03/18/04
Every independent filmmaker with a micro-budget and mega-dreams should see Baadasssss.
07/23/04
Mario's done a good job of depicting Melvin's accomplishments. Yet it seems to me that he's still selling his father's legacy short.
06/11/04
Top CriticOne of the best movies I've seen about the making of a movie.
06/11/04
Top CriticIt works as a biopic, as a truly American story, and as a sentimental, but never cloying, gift from son to father -- and from father to son.
06/10/04
Colorful time capsule of a movie.
05/27/04
Is it political? You bet your asssss.
06/16/04
...successfully capture a spirit largely missing in American cinema...
06/10/09
[Melvin's] utter cruelty toward Mario is shocking, especially watching the now-grown Mario re-enacting these episodes and taking the side of his former aggressor.
06/18/04
Latest News for Baadasssss!
January 03, 2006:
Vincent Schiavelli Passes at 57
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli, the long-faced veteran of over 150 film and television appearances, died of lung cancer December 26 at home in Sicily. He was 57 years old. More...
September 14, 2005:
Van Peebles "Wood" Direct a New Mystery Thriller
Mario Van Peebles has signed a deal with Spyglass Entertainment to direct and star in the mystery-thriller "Yellow Wood," says The Hollywood Reporter. More...
March 16, 2005:
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