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Black and White

Drama A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
"Toback presents specific characters dealing with specific problems and, through their stories, somehow manages to take the temperature of the times"  POS
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis." POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates."  NEU
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Slate
Slate
"[It] manages to exploit our own racial discomfort and envy in ways that leave us hungry for more." POS
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Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
"Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible." POS
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The Wall Street Journal
"The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties." NEG
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Newsweek
Newsweek
"Maverick moviemaker James Toback has latched on to the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of the American moment." POS
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