Synopsis
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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Cast
- Simon ChucksterBeetle
- Melvin Van PeeblesSweetback
- Hubert ScalesMu-Mu
- Mario Van PeeblesThe Young Sweetback
- John DullaghanCommissioner
- John AmosBiker
- Lavelle Roby
- Rhetta HughesOld Girlfriend
- Norman Fields
- Joe Tornatore
Recommendations
- 100
Film Threat
Blends the uncanny staging of home movies with a French New Wave perspective on iconography and metaphors. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
A landmark in Black filmmaking in the U.S., this angry, extravagant, loud, belligerent movie reaches a high pitch early on and stays there. - 100
Film Threat
Blends the uncanny staging of home movies with a French New Wave perspective on iconography and metaphors. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
A landmark in Black filmmaking in the U.S., this angry, extravagant, loud, belligerent movie reaches a high pitch early on and stays there. - 88
Slant Magazine
Over 40 years after its release, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song still retains its shock value, but even more so, it remains distinct as a work that cannot be squarely placed within a singular category. - 88
Slant Magazine
Over 40 years after its release, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song still retains its shock value, but even more so, it remains distinct as a work that cannot be squarely placed within a singular category. - 80
Time
Without question or competition, the most influential movie by a black filmmaker. - 80
Time Out
Totally uncompromising and grindingly repetitive, the film nevertheless accumulates a kind of hallucinatory groove, with unexpected shafts of bizarre humour and vigorous, experimental new wave direction.
