White Man's Burden

White Man's Burden

Reality Just Switched Sides

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

12/1/1995

Runtime

89 mins

Genres

Overview

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$9,000,000

Homepage

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A provocative racial role-reversal thriller that uses its alternate America to interrogate systemic inequality and the machinery of injustice. The film is a taut pressure cooker that builds from wrongful accusation to desperate confrontation, asking uncomfortable questions about who enforces power and why.

Mood

AngryBleakTenseContemplative

Themes

RaceClassPowerJusticeIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Brisk

Look

Naturalistic

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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