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