Black and White (1999)

Black and White: Directed by James Toback. With Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr., Stacy Edwards, Allan Houston. A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem’s black hip-hop crowd.

“Black u0026amp; White: a documentary director and her husband follows several upper middle class high school kids to try and comprehend why they have chosen to emulate black inner city hip-hop rappers. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat is intended to be an avante-garde-in-your-face mockumentary addressing serious sociological issues is a weak series of loosely interconnecting stories with poorly developed and uninteresting characters. The credits tout many big names – Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Brooke Shields among them – but the performances are lackluster at best: while Downeyu0026#39;s stereotypical fey gay character borders on offensive, he canu0026#39;t compare with Mike Tysonu0026#39;s ludicrous attempts at philosophizing. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt least there are no shades of grey here – it is all bad.”