Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
R 22 Mar 1973 • Action, Crime, Drama • 1h 37m
Sweet Sweetback is a black orphan who, having grown up in a brothel, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black community, His employer gives him up to two white cops, whom he ends up killing. Suddenly the target of a massive manhunt, he decides to flee to Mexico. As he makes his way there, he is captured by, and escapes from, both the cops and a chapter of the Hell's Angels.
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English
Awards:
1 win
Country:
United States
Metacritic Score:
71
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