The Watermelon Woman
1997 · TMDB 6.9
Directed by Cheryl Dunye
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Why it matters
Cheryl Dunye plays a version of herself, a video-store clerk hunting for a forgotten Black actress while navigating a white girlfriend and a mounting video-store bill. Playful, formally cheeky, and entirely serious about who gets to write the record.
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Released
- 1997-03-05
- Studio
- Dancing Girl
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.9
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