BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018)

 

Directed by: Spike Lee

Based on the memoirs of: Ron Stallworth

Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Corey Hawkins, Harry Belafonte, Jasper Pääkkönen, Ryan Eggold, Frederick Weller, Paul Walter Hauser, Ashlie Atkinson, Michael Buscemi, Ken Garito, Robert John Burke, Alec Baldwin, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Nicholas Turturro, Damaris Lewis

135 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, disturbing images)

PLOT:

In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first Black officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado Police Department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his coworkers. Stallworth requests a transfer to go undercover and is assigned to infiltrate a local rally at which national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (birth name Stokely Carmichael) is to give a speech. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, the president of the black student union at Colorado College. While taking Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a corrupt, racist officer in Stallworth's precinct, who threatens Ture and sexually assaults Patrice.

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