Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971 NC-17 1h 37m 5.5

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

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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Info about Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Studio(s): Yeah

Originally Released: United States on Mar 31, 1971

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Box Office Gross: $15,200,000.00

Budget: $500,000.00

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action

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