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Undercover Brother is a 2002 comedy starring Eddie Griffin and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (cousin of Spike Lee). The screenplay is by Michael McCullers and co-executive producer John Ridley (Three Kings), who created the original internet animation characters. It spoofs blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as a number of other films, most notably the James Bond franchise. It also stars former Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan, Denise Richards, comedian Dave Chappelle, Aunjanue Ellis, Neil Patrick Harris, Billy Dee Williams, and features a cameo by James Brown. Promotional poster for Undercover Brother, deemed This work is copyrighted. ...
Malcolm D. Lee (born January 11, 1970) is an African-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. ...
Brian Grazer (born July 12, 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is a Jewish-American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard. ...
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McCullers co wrote the 1999 Austin Powers film with Mike Myers Michael McCullers (born Alabama 1972) is an American comedy film screenwriter best known for co-writing the script of the last two Austin Powers movies, The Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember with Mike Myers. ...
Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ...
Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ...
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
Aunjanue L. Ellis (born on 21 February 1969) is an American actress known for her roles in Ray and in Undercover Brother as the catfighting Sistah Girl. ...
Stanley Clarke (born 30 June 1951) is an American musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as his numerous film and television scores. ...
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Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ...
Malcolm D. Lee (born January 11, 1970) is an African-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. ...
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an Emmy Award - winning, and Academy Award - nominated American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. ...
McCullers co wrote the 1999 Austin Powers film with Mike Myers Michael McCullers (born Alabama 1972) is an American comedy film screenwriter best known for co-writing the script of the last two Austin Powers movies, The Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember with Mike Myers. ...
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Shaft (1971) Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban black audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black†and “exploitation. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...
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Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ...
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, satirist and actor. ...
Aunjanue L. Ellis (born on 21 February 1969) is an American actress known for her roles in Ray and in Undercover Brother as the catfighting Sistah Girl. ...
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. ...
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Plot The movie begins saying that in the 70s, black culture was popular. In the 80s it went down a bit, and in the 90s, tragedy struck, and it proceeded to get worse, due to the efforts of "The Man" (Robert Trumbull). Then they say only one person kept the tradition alive: Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin). He looks and acts like he is still in the 70s. Image File history File links Acap. ...
Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ...
There is another group, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., who also fight for black rights. They never heard of Undercover Brother and he never heard of them. Sistah Girl (Aunjanue Ellis) is posing as an employee at one of The Man's company who has been trying to abolish all blackness in the world. Sistah Girl almost uploaded information from the computers, but then is interrupted. An alarm sounds and an old man is found deleting the files. Security guards go after him. They attack him and pull off his disguise and it turns out that it is Undercover Brother. Undercover Brother beats them up and runs. As he is running, Sistah Girl uses her briefcase and shoots a wire, causing the security guards to trip. Undercover Brother notices this and quickly thanks her. He runs to the top of the building and jumps off. Luckily, his parachute opens, bringing him to the ground safely. Aunjanue L. Ellis (born on 21 February 1969) is an American actress known for her roles in Ray and in Undercover Brother as the catfighting Sistah Girl. ...
The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. is curious as to who he is. The news said they do not know who he is, but they are questioning Macy Gray. They find out it is Undercover Brother. The Chief (Chi McBride), of the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., says they need somebody like that with them. Macy Gray (born Natalie Renee McIntyre on September 6, 1967[1]) is an American Grammy Award winning R&B, soul, and neo soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis. ...
Chi McBride (right) on Boston Public Chi McBride (born September 23, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. ...
The Man is mad that Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams), a black Vietnam veteran, is considering running for president, and a very likely candidate to win. He calls his lackey Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan) and Mr. Feather tells him about a mind control drug that they have produced. He hangs up the phone and turns on the radio. He tries to control himself, but he ends up dancing to rap music. Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor who for a period in the 1970s rivaled Sidney Poitier as the most popular black actor in American film. ...
Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ...
The members of the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. are all watching the TV where there is a press conference from Boutwell. They are waiting to see if he will run for office. When the press conference begins, he says he will be opening up a chicken joint. Everybody is shocked. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. is sure this is the work of The Man. The chief says he needs Undercover Brother.
Sistah Girl goes to Undercover Brother’s apartment and takes him to the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. headquarters. He meets Conspiracy Brother (Dave Chappelle), Smart Brother (Gary Anthony Williams), The Chief, and Lance (Neil Patrick Harris). Lance is a white man who was somehow hired as an intern there due to, according to the Chief, affirmative action. They explain to him about the organization and what they do. They also say what The Man does. David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, satirist and actor. ...
Gary Anthony Williams (born April 24, 1966) is an American screen actor. ...
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. ...
Sistah Girl and Undercover Brother go undercover at a golf course and follow Boutwell, who is acting like a white person. They spot Mr. Feather, and Undercover Brother goes after him. Feather runs away while his security guards fight him. Sistah Girl saves him. They leave and are sure that The Man is behind it because they know Mr. Feather is his #1 man.
The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. convinces Undercover Brother to go undercover in white culture. After undergoing a near dangerous procedure to study white culture, he goes undercover as a new employee, Anton Jackson, at the same company he busted in the beginning.
There, he meshes with the white people in the building, and then sneaks into a room with much technical equipment. He steals information on the candidate. They ask him to stay undercover until they decode the information. The alarm sounds and Mr. Feather sees Undercover Brother on a security camera.
Mr. Feather says they need to get their secret weapon which is like black people kryptonite: White She-Devil, a white woman. Undercover Brother changes back into Anton. He bumps into a disguised White She-Devil named Penelope Snow (Denise Richards). She says it is her first day of work too. Undercover Brother and her start to go out like a couple. She begins to make him do stereotypical white people things, including eating mayonnaise without the hot sauce, buying corduroy clothes, and the like. Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
When Undercover Brother goes to the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. headquarters, he is acting completely white. After insulting all the workers, he leaves the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. The chief says when he is undercover too long, they become what they go undercover as.
Things get even crazier for the black culture, including John Singleton remaking Driving Miss Daisy, Jay-Z remaking a Lawrence Welk album, and a sequel to How Stella Got Her Groove Back (entitled How Stella Got Her White Man Back) being made. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D find out from the information that they are using the mind control drug on the candidate. They ask how they are distributing the drug and realize it is in the chicken, which Conspiracy Brother was eating. The Chief says that it's now imperative that Undercover Brother gets his stuff together before it's too late. Sistah Girl goes to warn Undercover Brother since he doesn’t know. Conspiracy Brother asks Smart Brother if he is going to die from eating the chicken. John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ...
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ...
Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. ...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a (1998) romance film, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. ...
Undercover Brother is now as white as ever, as he listens to a Michael Bolton cover of Sisqo's "The Thong Song." Before things get even more confounded, Sistah Girl goes there dressed as a 70s vixen. She tries to convince him where he comes from, but Penelope tries to keep him in the white. Both women sway him back and forth between Undercover Brother and Anton Jackson until Sistah Girl pulls out his medallion that he says will remind him who he is. He becomes Undercover Brother. White She-Devil reveals herself as Penelope Snow and shows her true intentions by fighting with the two along with her henchmen. Sistah Girl and White She-Devil take the fight to the shower. The henchmen and Undercover Brother stop fighting and watch them as they fight seductively. Sistah Girl punches White She-Devil and knocks her out and Undercover Brother starts to fight again. Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals. ...
Sisqo on the cover of his 1999 LP Unleash the Dragon. ...
They leave and a car chase follows, but White She-Devil and the henchmen follow. They get trapped. The henchmen hold them and White She-Devil is about to shoot but shoots the henchmen instead. She says she fell in love with Undercover Brother.
They all go back to the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. Smart Brother takes White She-Devil to find out what she knows. While he does that, Lance comes in and says that he just saw Roots and wants to abolish all bigotry, much to the chagrin of Conspiracy Brother. They invite him into the group. Conspiracy Brother is angry that Lance was invited in. The Chief invites White She-Devil in as well. After a speech from Undercover Brother about equality, Conspiracy Brother decides to stay. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. head to a major awards gala after they find out that James Brown would become the next target. Lance tries to protect him, but the chauffeur was Mr. Feather and drove him away. Lance beats himself over his incompetence, then the group finds an antidote for the mind control drug. They go to the place where they took James Brown, who had a transmitter on him. Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haleys work Roots: The Saga of an American Family, his critically acclaimed genealogical novel. ...
For other persons named James Brown, see James Brown (disambiguation). ...
They go undercover as a Jamaican cleaning service to break in and try to find out where the candidate is. While they do that, Mr. Feather has James Brown held hostage. James Brown starts to yell, which reveals Mr. Feather's hidden blackness. James takes off his costume to reveal that it is Undercover Brother in disguise. Mr. Feather sends his henchmen after The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. finds out where the Candidate is. The Candidate, none other than Boutwell, is called by Mr. Feather who tells him to kill Undercover Brother while he runs away.
The henchmen arrive in the command center and one of them says that White She-Devil set up the Brotherhood. She goes to him, but steals his gun and turns it on him. Sistah Girl and White She-Devil fight with the other henchmen. Afterwards Conspiracy Brother presses a button that will make the building have a meltdown in 5 minutes. Then they go to help Undercover Brother. Boutwell is about to shoot him when they give him to antidote. They take him out of the building. While on on the way they encounter three white guards which are killed in a gruesome manner by Lance, whom they had provoked by calling him a 'Sissy'. The team reaches the beach at the same moment as the Chief, who arrives with a hovercraft.
Undercover Brother runs to the roof to stop Mr. Feather. They get into a kung-fu fight and fight to the song Beat It. Mr. Feather uses knives concealed in his sleeves to cut off Undercover Brother’s afro. He is angry "(Mess with the fro, and you got to go.)" and goes after him. At the same time, The Man is in a helicopter above the building and tells the drivers to leave because Mr. Feather failed him. Mr. Feather jumps up and holds onto the bottom. Over the ocean, Undercover Brother throws his afro picks at him and makes Mr. Feather fall, and a shark jumps from the water and eats him. The building explodes and Undercover Brother jumps off to where the group are standing, far on the beach below. Sistah Girl says he doesn’t have his parachute, but he presses a button and his bellbottoms expand and float him to safety. Beat it redirects here. ...
Woman with an afro at the Tribeca Film Festival For the Italian painter known as Afro, see Afro Basaldella. ...
He and Sistah Girl kiss and after a speech about equality they board the hovercraft and leave the island. A voice from the off asserts that thanks to Undercover Brother the world is funky again. Afterwards, Undercover Brother is doing 360 spins in his car while holding a Big Gulp, thus signalling the end of the movie.
Cast Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ...
Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ...
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. ...
Aunjanue L. Ellis (born on 21 February 1969) is an American actress known for her roles in Ray and in Undercover Brother as the catfighting Sistah Girl. ...
David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, satirist and actor. ...
Chi McBride (right) on Boston Public Chi McBride (born September 23, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. ...
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. ...
Gary Anthony Williams (born April 24, 1966) is an American screen actor. ...
Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor who for a period in the 1970s rivaled Sidney Poitier as the most popular black actor in American film. ...
Jack Noseworthy (born December 21, 1964) is an American actor whose most visible movie role may have been in U-571. ...
Trivia - Conspiracy Brother talks about the scene when Forrest met Bubba in Forrest Gump. Dave Chappelle was offered the role of Bubba, but he refused because he thought the movie would bomb. He admits now that he regrets turning down the role.
For other uses, see Forrest Gump (disambiguation). ...
Awards - Black Reel - Best Film Song for "Undercova Brother (We Got the Funk)"[1]
- Performed by Snoop Dogg, Bootsy Collins, and Fred Wesley
The Black Reel Awards, inaugurated in 2000, annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of African-Americans in feature, independent and television films, ranging from their character portrayals in front of camera, to their technical artistry behind the camera. ...
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. ...
William Bootsy Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a pioneering funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. ...
Fred Wesley (born 1943) is an American jazz and funk trombonist. ...
References Give Up the Funk is a song by Parliament. ...
Parliament was originally The Parliaments, a doo-wop group based out of George Clintons Plainfield, New Jersey barber shop. ...
External links The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...
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