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A 1996 American RoadMoviePlot drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee about a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to the Million Man March in 1995.
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A 1996 American RoadMoviePlot RoadTripPlot drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee about a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to the Million Man March in 1995.
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A 1996 American RoadMoviePlot drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee about a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to the Million Man March in 1995.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Jamal tells a story about how he grew up a gangster and killing many other kids who hadn't actually done anything to him just for being in a rival gang. He insists that's just the way things were in his neighborhood, but Gary, whose father was killed by GangBangers, isn't having it, and says no backstory can excuse murder.
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* NWordPrivileges: Played with; there's plenty of n-words being thrown around, but when {{Jerkass}} BoomerangBigot Wendell starts actually using it like a slur, he's thrown off the bus soon after.
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* RacistGrandpa: Inverted with Jeremiah, who's the oldest man on the bus...and doesn't partake in any of the other's PoliticallyIncorrectHero tendencies, ie giving Gary shit for being half-white, harassing a white bus driver who's just doing his job, or being openly homophobic towards Kyle and Randall.
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A 1996 American drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee that has about a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to A the Million Man March.
March in 1995.
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A 1996 American drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee that has a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to A Million Man March.
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A 1996 American drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee that has a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to A Million Man March.
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A 1996 American drama directed by Creator/SpikeLee that has a group of black men (Creator/CharlesSDutton, Creator/OssieDavis, Creator/ThomasJeffersonByrd, Creator/DeAundreBonds, Creator/IsaiahWashington, Creator/HarryLennix, Creator/AndreBraugher, Creator/HillHarper, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/RogerGuenveurSmith, Creator/GabrielCasseus, Creator/BernieMac, Creator/SteveWhite, and Creator/AlbertHall) on a bus trip to A Million Man March.
The movie also stars Creator/RichardBelzer, Creator/WendellPierce, Creator/KristenWilson, and Creator/JoeiLee with Creator/RandyQuaid in an uncredited role as a Tennessee State Trooper.
It was released on October 16, 1996.
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!Tropes for the film:
* BoomerangBigot: The movie has a [[HonestJohnsDealership successful car salesman]] who initially comes off as a FlawlessToken as he encourages a black youth to focus on education to be successful...then in the same breath reveals he went to a "real college and not some nigger school", going on an anti-black tirade that might as well be spoken by a neo-Nazi with NWordPrivileges where he derides ''everything/everyone'' black, reveals he's a Republican though [[PetTheDog he's okay with]] [[TwoferTokenMinority Threefer, a gay, black Republican]] for the same politics regardless of sexual orientation, [[KickTheDog with the kicker]] being his revealing that he couldn't care less about the Million Man March (the entire [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint point]] and [[MoneyDearBoy is only there to sell cars]]. He finally works their last nerve by telling a racist joke about how "lesbians and niggers don't do dick", and is ''literally'' [[AssholeVictim thrown off the bus into a ditch]].
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Flips tells a story about the time he tried out for his school's track team against his mother's wishes. She showed up at the tryouts with a belt so thick nobody could actually wear it, and, well... let's just say Flip hates wearing belts to this day. By contrast, the man with the white mother relates how she grounded him for a serious infraction, and the other men agree that their black mothers would surely have beaten them for the same offense.
* GayConservative: The movie has Kyle, a gay, black Republican who essentially faces persecution from all sides. Having fought in the Gulf War, he has intentionally shot by his own platoon because of his sexual orientation ''and'' his race, and at least one other black character in the movie disapproves of him for these specific reasons.
* OneLetterName: X is one of the men going to the Million Man March. Flip doesn't believe it's his real name, and it isn't - it's short for Xavier, but he's always preferred "X".
* StronglyWordedLetter: The movie has a variation. One of the black men on the bus relates an anecdote about he got in deep trouble with his white mother, causing her to lecture him. The rest of the black men are unimpressed, saying their mothers would have surely beaten them for the same offense.
The movie also stars Creator/RichardBelzer, Creator/WendellPierce, Creator/KristenWilson, and Creator/JoeiLee with Creator/RandyQuaid in an uncredited role as a Tennessee State Trooper.
It was released on October 16, 1996.
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!Tropes for the film:
* BoomerangBigot: The movie has a [[HonestJohnsDealership successful car salesman]] who initially comes off as a FlawlessToken as he encourages a black youth to focus on education to be successful...then in the same breath reveals he went to a "real college and not some nigger school", going on an anti-black tirade that might as well be spoken by a neo-Nazi with NWordPrivileges where he derides ''everything/everyone'' black, reveals he's a Republican though [[PetTheDog he's okay with]] [[TwoferTokenMinority Threefer, a gay, black Republican]] for the same politics regardless of sexual orientation, [[KickTheDog with the kicker]] being his revealing that he couldn't care less about the Million Man March (the entire [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint point]] and [[MoneyDearBoy is only there to sell cars]]. He finally works their last nerve by telling a racist joke about how "lesbians and niggers don't do dick", and is ''literally'' [[AssholeVictim thrown off the bus into a ditch]].
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Flips tells a story about the time he tried out for his school's track team against his mother's wishes. She showed up at the tryouts with a belt so thick nobody could actually wear it, and, well... let's just say Flip hates wearing belts to this day. By contrast, the man with the white mother relates how she grounded him for a serious infraction, and the other men agree that their black mothers would surely have beaten them for the same offense.
* GayConservative: The movie has Kyle, a gay, black Republican who essentially faces persecution from all sides. Having fought in the Gulf War, he has intentionally shot by his own platoon because of his sexual orientation ''and'' his race, and at least one other black character in the movie disapproves of him for these specific reasons.
* OneLetterName: X is one of the men going to the Million Man March. Flip doesn't believe it's his real name, and it isn't - it's short for Xavier, but he's always preferred "X".
* StronglyWordedLetter: The movie has a variation. One of the black men on the bus relates an anecdote about he got in deep trouble with his white mother, causing her to lecture him. The rest of the black men are unimpressed, saying their mothers would have surely beaten them for the same offense.
