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Watermelon Man

New Hollywood • 1h 39m

Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1970 • United States
Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine

Melvin Van Peebles puts a spin on Franz Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS in this provocative racial satire. Bigoted white insurance salesman Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) has it made: he’s got a loving wife, two adorable kids, and a comfortable suburban home. But when Jeff wakes up one morning to discover that he has inexplicably turned into a Black man, he soon finds out what it means to live as an outsider in a racist society.

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