Product Details

• Actors: Gregory 'Popeye' Alexander, Sena Ayn Black, Conni Marie Brazelton, Sarah Kaite Coughlan, Starletta DuPois
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: M.C.E.G./Virgin Visi
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300266893
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,786 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The alumni of Hollywood Shuffle are spread across dozens of current comedies and TV sitcoms--this is the movie that introduced Robert Townsend and the Wayans Brothers to the world. Townsend plays a young actor who struggles with being offered stereotyped street hustler roles while trying to maintain his self-respect and the approval of his family. Between scenes of comically humiliating auditions, Bobby has satirical fantasies about the plight of black actors, including the classic "Black Acting School" sketch, in which white teachers demonstrate jive talk and street moves for the befuddled black students. Townsend has a charming, low-key comic style, one considerably more subtle than that of some of the black comics who have risen to success with supposedly self-aware renditions of the stereotypes Townsend mocks. Townsend made this movie on his credit cards and it is clearly a heartfelt labor of love. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Go Jheri, Go Jheri, Do Da Jheri Curl!!, November 27, 2006

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Sing Brotha Sing (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollywood Shuffle (DVD)

This has got to be the funniest movie I have ever watched, and the fact that Townsend put so much into getting it made makes me appreciate it even more. While the film touches on a very important subject concerning the downfalls of being a black actor, it still manages to keep the humor alive and strong. Highly recommend this film to all aspiring actors and all those who just love a good laugh.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He understands the laws of GRAVITIVATEE and POLARITY!, January 7, 2006

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My Key (Rip City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollywood Shuffle (DVD)

Hollywood shuffle is pound for pound, the best comedy of all-time. It was made on a budget of seventeen dollars. Each actor plays an average of 7 roles. The very idea of white acting coaches teaching black actors how to act black {"jive turkey (...)!"} is brilliant. Chapelle tapped into the same vein when he dreamed up his blind black white-supremacist sketch. 'Night of the living Street Pimps' inspired many a halloween costume and Keenan Ivory Wayans as Jeri-Kurl is the funniest (...) ever, period. This movie is brilliant on so many levels and there's nothing else that compares to it. It's a nice history lesson for anyone who wants to know what 1987 was like, when the only rap on Mtv was Run-Dmc and LL Cool J. Watch it with some ho-cakes, a winkie-dinkie burger, winkie-dinkie donuts, winkie-dinkie dip and of course, a winkie-dinkie DAWGGGG!!!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars F@#$ing Mother's Turkey Jive, May 19, 2005

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Christian Mayfield (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hollywood Shuffle (DVD)

This film is a classic. When I first saw it as a kid, I just thought it was funny, not realizing that it had a message as well as being comical. I don't know what my favorite scene is, but there are some classics such as Rambro, and Black Acting School. Keep an open mind when watching this film and try not to forget, in between laughs, that Townsend does have a serious theme about disrmination in Hollywood.