Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Aspiring actor Robert Townsend dreams of his big break, but is worried that being cast as a stereotype in an exploitation film isn’t the way he wants to make it. Interspersed into this tale are fantasy vignettes satirizing other aspects of the film industry told from a Black perspective. Co-written and also featuring Keenan Ivory Wayans, a lot of these bits are similar to some seen in In Living Color. Though they are almost all humorous, I somewhat wish the sketches were nixed and the focus was entirely on the Black actor’s experience in Hollywood. The entire film is less than an hour and a half and it feels like a longer story was sold short.