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The Answer
UNITED STATES · 1980

The Answer

Spike Lee
racism in cinema film industry politics historical trauma artistic integrity Black representation
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Synopsis

A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of The Birth of a Nation.

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