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Amos & Andrew

PG-13 1993 1h 36m Comedy List
17% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 31% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
When erudite black playwright Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson) moves to a predominantly white suburb, the buffoonish local police surround his home, assuming he's a burglar. To avoid a scandal, unscrupulous Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) conscripts low-rent criminal Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) to break in and take Sterling hostage. But Amos and Andrew soon realize Tolliver has no plans to let either survive, so they must put their differences aside and work together to get out alive.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: F Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Lawrence Cohn Variety A one-joke sketch that doesn't work as a feature. Sep 16, 2008 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Cage is the only actor allowed to do riffs on his assigned part, something he takes full advantage of; the others are stuck with their two-dimensional satirical profiles, which grow increasingly tiresome and unyielding. Sep 16, 2008 Full Review Malcolm Johnson Hartford Courant Frye proves a remarkably inept director, with little sense of pacing farce, or creating absurd characters. Jun 8, 2018 Full Review TV Guide Comedies about racism risk trivializing the issue on the one hand or becoming preachy and dull on the other. Amos & Andrew manages to do both. Rated: 1.5/4 Sep 16, 2008 Full Review Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Rated: 2/5 Oct 8, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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William S After 50 years of cinephobe cant believe we are back to this garbage. Zach is still racist Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/12/23 Full Review Steve D Far more disturbing than funny. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/12/23 Full Review Andrzej W I really liked it, very chill & wholesome comedy despite the themes it depicts, great cast. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/09/23 Full Review farah r A dumb, offensive, and utterly pointless movie. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A great movie about racism. This rates up there with Blazing Saddles in dealing with racism. How they got a racist bigot to play a lead role of a man (Andrew) who overcomes racial bigotry, while the actor himself continues to live a woke life of racial bigotry, is beyond me. The characters are near perfect in the way they portray the way racism is a tool for so many people who are commonly considered "not racist" or "can't be racist." From the corrupt liberal police chief Cecil Tolliver to the liberal lawyer and his wife Phil and Judy Gillman to the Reverend Fenton Brunch and his "civil rights" marchers who are marching for the absolute wrong reasons, not to mention the bimbo pizza girl enamored with the criminal punk thug, this is a beautiful movie exposing REAL racism. (Not dealing with racism, but another perfect mockery: the self-absorbed psychiatrist.) 3 flaws I can recall: --Who names their dog "Rommel" outside of a very few white supremacists? Especially on this exclusive liberal island? --Uh yeah, their's a ignorant, uneducated, dirty ol' redneck with bloodhounds on Martha's Vineyard -- RIGHT! --Andrew whines that his dad washed his mouth out with soap because "he didn't want me to sound 'black'." No, he didn't want his son sounding like a Thug. "Black" and "Thug" are NOT the same thing (except among liberals, BLM, NBA, NFL and the woke.) What's missing is the CNN-style news coverage, protecting the Liberals and lying about everything. Why so many negatives about the movie? The truth hurts. Note that negative reviews make ad hominem attacks and cry a little. They never say Andrew and all the liberals in this movie are not perfectly played. Not one can explain WHY they dislike it other than "it's racist." Of course this movie is racist! But it's TRUE to the point that it's painfully funny. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Have you been looking for a lighthearted, slapstick comedy that focuses mainly on racial discrimination? Oh boy, have you found it... and it's funny enough. The real selling point though, it that Sir-Mix-A-Lot song that tells you EVERYTHING you just watched as the credits roll. lol. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When erudite black playwright Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson) moves to a predominantly white suburb, the buffoonish local police surround his home, assuming he's a burglar. To avoid a scandal, unscrupulous Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) conscripts low-rent criminal Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) to break in and take Sterling hostage. But Amos and Andrew soon realize Tolliver has no plans to let either survive, so they must put their differences aside and work together to get out alive.
Director
E. Max Frye
Producer
Gary Goetzman
Screenwriter
E. Max Frye
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$9.5M
Runtime
1h 36m
Sound Mix
Surround
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