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Fakin' da Funk is a 1997 comedy film written and directed by Tim Chey. It stars Pam Grier, Ernie Hudson, Dante Basco, Tone Loc, Margaret Cho, and Tatyana Ali.
Oct 18, 1997 · Fakin' Da Funk: Directed by Timothy A. Chey. With Ernie Hudson, Pam Grier, Margaret Cho, Dante Basco. A Chinese baby boy is adopted by a black couple in ATL. Seventeen years later he moves with his mom and brother to a black LA hood.
Fakin' The Funk (1997) | Danté Basco Pam Grier Margaret Cho. A Chinese baby boy is adopted by a black couple in ATL. Seventeen years later he moves with his mom and brother to a black LA hood...
21K views 6 years ago. An adopted Chinese teen and an Asian exchange student (Margaret Cho) try to befriend his African-American peers in the Los Angeles hood. ...more.
Jul 20, 1997 · Overview. Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family, are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighbourhood of South Central.
Fakin' Da Funk is a 1997 comedy film starring Pam Grier and Dante Basco about a Chinese son adopted by black parents who relocates to South Central Los Angeles. A second story involves Mai-Ling, an exchange student played by Margaret Cho, who by another twist, gets sent to the wrong 'hood'. The film was written and directed by Tim Chey.
An interracial comedy that explores the concept of identity in the context of culture, set in the South Central, Fakin' Da Funk is a satirical and wider look at what it is to be like as an Asian-American growing up and assimilating into African American culture.
