Rent Watermelon Man (1970)
3.4 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 37min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice suburban home, a progressive-thinking wife (Estelle Parsons) and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man. The doctor's 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!
- Actors:
- Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland, Kay Kimberly, 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
- Directors:
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Producers:
- John B. Bennett
- Writers:
- Herman Raucher
- Aka:
- The Night the Sun Came Out
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Films About Television: Part 1, A Brief History of Films About Television: Part 2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/05/2020
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Introduction by Melvin Van Peebles (2004, 5 mins)
- The Guardian Interview with Melvin Van Peebles (1996, 71 mins): archival audio recording of the filmmaker in conversation with broadcaster Darcus Howe at London's National Film Theatre
- Image gallery: publicity and promotional photography
- World Premiere on Blu-ray
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