Raggedy-ass re-enactment of the making of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the 1971 blaxploitation blip by Melvin Van Peebles. There's certainly a behind-the-scenes story to tell (and writer-director-star Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, has a highly personal angle), but the slapdash dramatizations and pseudodocumentary interviews hardly help the credibility. With Rainn Wilson, Joy Bryant, Saul Rubinek, David Alan Grier, and (as the beneficent Bill Cosby) T.K. Carter. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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