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* NamesTheSame: Despite the similar title, the film has nothing to do with the old radio and TV show ''Amos 'N' Andy''.
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* NamesTheSame: Despite the similar title, the film has nothing to do with the old radio and TV show ''Amos 'N' Andy''.Andy''.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.
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* CreatorKiller: E. Max Frye wasn't the most prolific writer, though he did pen ''Film/SomethingWild'', which was critically acclaimed and garnered a cult following. But the box office failure of this movie makes this the only time he got to sit in the director's chair and hardly did anything since.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The plot of the film (1993) concerns an African American intellectual who has the cops called on him when his neighbors suspect him of breaking into his own house. In 2009, the exact scenario played out for Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., which led to the famous [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/31/barack-obama-beer-summit Beer Summit]] in which UsefulNotes/BarackObama tried to get him and the cop to talk out their differences.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $17 million. Gross: $9.7 million.
* NamesTheSame: Despite the similar title, the film has nothing to do wit the old radio and TV show ''Amos 'N' Andy''.
* NamesTheSame: Despite the similar title, the film has nothing to do wit the old radio and TV show ''Amos 'N' Andy''.
