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Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran.
May 27, 1970 · Watermelon Man: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin. Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
Watermelon Man. Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s.
Page 1 of 7, 7 total items. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. A white insurance salesman, Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge), gets the surprise of his life when he wakes up and discovers that his skin now...
Bigoted suburbanite Jeff Gerber wakes up to discover that he has become black. Horrified, he indulges in an orgy of hot showers, bleaches, hair straighteners, and milk.
Sep 28, 2021 · M elvin Van Peebles’s blistering satire Watermelon Man (1970)—the only film that he made for a Hollywood studio—has long lived in the shadows of his other work, especially the film that immediately followed it, the popular and controversial 1971 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) lives in an average suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea (Estelle Parsons), who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love, and two children, 10-year-old Burton (Scott Garrett) and eight-year-old Janice (Erin Moran).
