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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.
10 April 1958, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
12 August 1950, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 December 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 October 1961, New York City, New York, USA
13 December 1960, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
8 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
16 December 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 August 1941, Louisiana, USA
18 July 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 June 1955, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
March 18, 2008
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great.
May 04, 2004
The movie isn't perfect, but it provides some genuine laughs and some real food for thought.
April 06, 2006
Instead of bile it has humor, which is the more reliable means of conveying a message.
May 15, 2016
...presaged a revolution that never came.
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.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow.
April 22, 2011
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
March 18, 2008
Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution.
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.
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.
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.
March 18, 2008
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show.
