White Men Are Cracking Up (1996)
Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men. Through the blurred lines of perception and reality, the myth of the Black feminine mystique is explored under the guise of a murder mystery. The film explores the fetishization of Black women as a manifestation of white male insecurity.
- Date of release
- 1996-01-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Ngozi Onwurah
Casting
- Theo Omambala — Maisie Blue
- Jon Finch — Detective Margrave
- Tom Geoghegan — Buckley
- Nick Simons — Sandwich Board Man
- Bernard Lawrence — Homeless Man
- John Rafferty — Tom
- Howard Davis — Boy
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