Baadasssss LiMiTED DVDRiP XViD-DEiTY torrent

Release Date: 09/102/04 Source: RETAiL R1 DVD

Theater Date: 05/28/04 Runtime: 108 MiN 50 SEC

DVD Date: 09/14/04 Subs: French,Spanish,Portuguesse



Video Codec: XViD 1.0 Video Bitrate: ~752 kbp

Audio Codec: MP3 VBR 2Ch Audio Bitrate: 135kbps 48kHz

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Resolution: 560x320



Frame Rate: 23.976 fps Genre: Drama

IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 Files: 696MB 50x15MB



IMDB Link: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0367790/





Plot



Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with

his debut feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Filmed in

France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco

Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying

it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968 for a

black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival

award for a film he had to go abroad to make--now that's how

you make your mark. After his comedy, Watermelon Man, Melvin

was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the

groundbreaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's

Baadasssss Song. Turned down by every major studio including

Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced

to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had Melvin

delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big

screen--whether they were ready or not! More than 30 years

later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this

very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest

and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now

tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark

1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, including

Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the

guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked

creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew

after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch

of Negroes and hippies couldn't have come by that camera

equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily

losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into

shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that

would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to

explode: Independent Black Cinema.





Cast





Mario Van Peebles.....................Melvin Van Peebles

Joy Bryant.....................................Priscilla

T.K. Carter...................................Bill Cosby

Terry Crews........................................Big T

Ossie Davis......................................Grandad

David Alan Grier...........................Clyde Houston

Nia Long..........................................Sandra

Paul Rodriguez...............................Jose Garcia

Saul Rubinek.......................................Howie

Vincent Schiavelli.................................Jerry

Khleo Thomas.......................................Mario

Rainn Wilson.................................Bill Harris

Karimah Westbrook.................................Ginnie

Len Lesser.........................Manny & Mort Goldberg

Sally Struthers......................................Roz

Directed by............................Mario Van Peebles