Year			2004
Genre			Drama
Length			1:48
Director			Mario Van Peebles
Writer			Mario Van Peebles
Company			Sony Pictures
Starring			Mario Van Peebles Joy Bryant T.K. Carter Terry Crews Ossie Davis David Alan Grier Show more... Mario Van Peebles Joy Bryant T.K. Carter Terry Crews Ossie Davis David Alan Grier Nia Long Paul Rodriguez Saul Rubinek Vincent Schiavelli Khleo Thomas Rainn Wilson Karimah Westbrook

In "Baadasssss!" Mario Van Peebles pay tribute to his dad, pioneer black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. The Movie dramatically recounts the saga of what his father went through more than 30 years ago when Melvin decided to go against every grain in American filmmaking to make his breakout hit, "Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song." Following the success of his directing debut, "The Watermelon Man," made for a Hollywood studio in 1970, Melvin decides against all conventional wisdom to make a movie about a black street hustler turned revolutionary running from racist cops. And the only way to do this is with independent financing. He doesn't stop there, though. Melvin insists on a multiethnic crew. To throw the then-white unions off the scent, he pretends he is making a porno.