Black Mama, White Mama

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Black Mama, White Mama

R

1972

1h 27m

Action

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Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) is a black girl busted for prostitution. Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) is a white girl arrested for her involvement with a local revolutionary group. The two women meet in jail and, despite their mutual animosity, are chained together for transport to a maximum security prison. Their bus is ambushed en route, however, and the pair manages to escape together. Chased by bounty hunters, crooked police and revolutionaries, they struggle to get along and get away.

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Nicholas Bell

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Hardly a feminist manifesto, and not exactly revolutionary as far as Grier's problematic characterizations in Blaxploitation cinema, Black Mama, White Mama contains intriguing gender dynamics and subversively coded power plays.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 8, 2020

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Jun 19, 2005

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Brent A

10% rating ... Was going through a Pam Grier phase & stumbled on this atrocious film.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/01/23

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Fairly standard women-in-chains flick. While not doing much unique, it's still a fun piece of sleazy exploitation. It's got a much darker and more abrupt ending than these usually get.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/21

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delysid d

Im suprised to see this has such a low score. I thought this was a great film and my favorite of its kind. Its about 2 women who escape from jail handcuffed together, one is black and one is white, but theyre both Mamas, both are involved in some kind of rebel activity of some kind. Great music

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/28/17

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kevin w

"How exploitative," one might well ask before seriously considering this cultural bon mot (and one would be right to do so), this walk on the wild side? The opening credits are still afterburning your eyes and the ladies get naked forthwith. Egad, what culture! Fun from the 70's, nearly as good as The Godfather!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

While it's paint by numbers within the genre, It's still a fun and enjoyable piece of exploitation cinema.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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There's some fun to be had, but for the rest of the running time it just plods along.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Eddie Romero

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Pam Grier

Lee Daniels

Margaret Markov

Karen Brent

Sid Haig

Ruben

Lynn Borden

Matron Densmore

Zaldy Zshornack

Ernesto

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Synopsis

Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) is a black girl busted for prostitution. Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) is a white girl arrested for her involvement with a local revolutionary group. The two women meet in jail and, despite their mutual animosity, are chained together for transport to a maximum security prison. Their bus is ambushed en route, however, and the pair manages to escape together. Chased by bounty hunters, crooked police and revolutionaries, they struggle to get along and get away.

Director: Eddie Romero
Producer: John Ashley, Eddie Romero
Screenwriter: H.R. Christian, Jonathan Demme, Joe Viola
Production Co: Four Associates Ltd., American International Pictures (AIP)
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 13, 2017
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 35mm

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