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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.
28 August 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
21 April 1946, Ohio, USA
8 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
16 December 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 August 1950, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
13 May 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 November 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 22, 2011
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
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.
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.
May 04, 2004
The movie isn't perfect, but it provides some genuine laughs and some real food for thought.
May 15, 2016
...presaged a revolution that never came.
April 06, 2006
Instead of bile it has humor, which is the more reliable means of conveying a message.
March 18, 2008
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show.
March 18, 2008
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great.
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
Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow.