Review – Hollywood Shuffle

It’s sad just how on-point this movie remains all these years after it first came out. Director/writer/star Robert Townsend became the hero of indie film-makers everywhere by financing this picture by running up a tab on dozens of credit cards and shooting without permits. He also does a great job of re-using cast (a few of whom later became stars in their own right, particularly a couple of Wayanses), not to mention props, sets, etc. But the real charm here is the script. Townsend finds several clever ways to use satire to criticize Hollywood’s race lines. Worth seeing