WATERMELON MAN

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Godfey Cambridge stars in this outrageous comedy directed by maverick filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song).; Jeff Gerber (Cambridge) seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice suburban home, a progressive-thinking wife (Academy Award -winner Estelle Parson, Best ; Supporting Actress, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who makes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man. The doctors have no explanation and no cure for his sudden change. Suddenly, Gerber is a white bigot in black skin who has to deal with a shocked family, intolerant neighbors, cold shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus!
• Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland, Kay Kimberley, Kay E. Kuter, Scott Garrett, Erin Moran, Irving Selbst, Emil Sitka, Lawrence Parke, Karl Lukas, Ray Ballard, Robert Dagny, Paul Williams, Ralph Montgomery, Charles Lampkin, Vivian Rhodes, Erik L. Nelson, Matthias Uitz, Rhodie Cogan, Donna Dubrow, Frank Farmer, Hazel Medina, Mae Clarke, Almira Sessions, Melvin Van Peebles
• Director: Melvin Van Peebles
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie