Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strai... (Full plot summary below)
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Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzProblem is it hammers home its point about racism being alive and well in America until it becomes annoyingly repetitive and preachy. |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeGradually, Van Peebles turns stereotypical images of postwar bourgeois prosperity against themselves, leading to a denouement that feels oddly empowering in its total alienation from the status quo. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrOften very funny in its topsy-turvy comments on racism, the script unfortunately has to battle against a director determined to use every gaudy trick in the book. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorIt is not the most stalwart ethnological study of its time, though it is significant for its heritage, its confrontation, and its violation of taboos. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe pounding prelude to a cultural and cinematic revolution, Watermelon Man nearly bubbles over with the rage that exploded outright with Van Peebles' follow-up, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasWatermelon Man demands complete surrender and gives absolutely nothing in return except embarrassment. |
| User ReviewSteve TBefore Get Out, there was this! MASTERPIECE! |
| User ReviewThomas KWhen Godfrey Cambridge died we lost a great talent. Yes, the make up isn't very good and it's amateurishly made but it's still very funny and very smart. |
| User ReviewEugene TI love this movie it's a must see if you have not seen it and I really wish this scenerio could happen to a whole bunch of people so they could feel first hand what many other people deal with on a daily basis.... |
| User ReviewPrivate UI watched this movie once about 25 years ago - it stuck in my mind since - streets ahead |
