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Hollywood Shuffle
Hollywood Shuffle follows the attempts of Bobby Taylor, his dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer and the mental and external roadblocks he encounters, represented through a series of interspersed vignettes and fantasies.
12 August 1950, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 June 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 November 1952, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
May 04, 2004
The movie isn't perfect, but it provides some genuine laughs and some real food for thought.
January 01, 2000
For a mere $100,000, Townsend and company have made a funny, poignant and technically proficient film -- one that should thoroughly embarrass those studios that routinely offer up badly made, multimillion-dollar disasters.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow.
April 06, 2006
Instead of bile it has humor, which is the more reliable means of conveying a message.
March 18, 2008
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great.
April 22, 2011
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
March 18, 2008
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show.
March 18, 2008
Although haphazardly paced and scattershot in approach, when it works, this satire on Hollywood's attitudes toward African-Americans is downright hilarious.
February 09, 2006
Despite the film's conspicuously minuscule budget and shaky narrative structure, it is funny. If you value enthusiasm and imagination more than glossy sophistication, you'll laugh.
January 01, 2000
Under the circumstances, Hollywood Shuffle is an artistic compromise but a logistical triumph, announcing the arrival of a new talent whose next movie should really be something.
March 18, 2008
Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution.
May 15, 2016
...presaged a revolution that never came.