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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Dir. Melvin Van Peebles·1971·1h 38m
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Melvin Van Peebles
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Countries
United States of America
Ratings
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5.2/10
117 votes
Rating consensus
52/100 blend
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Cooler blended reception — weighted ~52/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Simon Chuckster
Beetle
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
Mario Van Peebles
The Young Sweetback
John Dullaghan
Commissioner
John Amos
Biker
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes
Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
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Joe Tornatore
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Mikel Angel
William Kirschner
Vincent Barbi
Community Ledger
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