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06/24/06
White Man's Burden (1995)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:8
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.5/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this acclaimed story of role reversal, John Travolta plays a blue collar man from the white minority who fights against the odds and the system when he loses his job, taking on the owner of his... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Tom Bower
Director: Desmond Nakano
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03/26/09
Top CriticThe flaws in this film are many. The dialogue verges on silly when parodying cliches that white people use to denigrate blacks. And most of the acting is just inadequate.
01/01/00
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09/10/04
A frustrating film with interesting ideas that never quite come together.
01/01/00
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07/26/02
It's undeniably fascinating to watch this hypothetical experiment for a while. But White Man's Burden starts to feel like an only-passable Twilight Zone episode stretched into a full-length movie.
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06/19/05
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03/19/04
There isn't much of a story in White Man's Burden.
01/01/00
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08/04/04
You can see the ideas behind White Man's Burden -- they just don't make it to the screen.
01/01/00
A 'what-if' racial story that doesn't pack a punch.
01/01/00
So simple, so broad are White Man's Burden's paint strokes ... that no real lesson outside of the obviously mundane can be elicited, and that's a real shame.
01/01/00
Doesn't go too far beyond the basic set-up.
08/07/04
White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.
01/01/00
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