Hollywood Shuffle
Hollywood Shuffle follows the attempts of Bobby Taylor, his dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer and the mental and external roadblocks he encounters, represented through a series of interspersed vignettes and fantasies.
8 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
24 December 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 March 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1960, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 December 1960, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
25 November 1952, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
4 August 1941, Louisiana, USA
28 August 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
13 September 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 December 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
21 March 1958, USA
March 18, 2008
Although haphazardly paced and scattershot in approach, when it works, this satire on Hollywood's attitudes toward African-Americans is downright hilarious.
April 06, 2006
Instead of bile it has humor, which is the more reliable means of conveying a message.
May 04, 2004
The movie isn't perfect, but it provides some genuine laughs and some real food for thought.
April 22, 2011
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
May 20, 2003
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow.
May 15, 2016
...presaged a revolution that never came.
January 01, 2000
Under the circumstances, Hollywood Shuffle is an artistic compromise but a logistical triumph, announcing the arrival of a new talent whose next movie should really be something.
March 18, 2008
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show.
March 18, 2008
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great.
February 09, 2006
Despite the film's conspicuously minuscule budget and shaky narrative structure, it is funny. If you value enthusiasm and imagination more than glossy sophistication, you'll laugh.
January 01, 2000
For a mere $100,000, Townsend and company have made a funny, poignant and technically proficient film -- one that should thoroughly embarrass those studios that routinely offer up badly made, multimillion-dollar disasters.
March 18, 2008
Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution.
