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It’s not the return of Sweet Sweetback, but septuagenarian Melvin Van Peebles—who writes, directs and stars in this semiautobiographical diversion about a lad with wanderlust—does a fine job playing a horny 17-year-old. It won’t be “rated X by an all-white jury” (as Sweetback’s tag line boasted), but it’ll get at least a solid PG-13.

[This film is an official selection of the TONY Film department for the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. While it has not been given a star rating, our Film experts consider it to be among the superior entries to this event.] 

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Short Review - NY Issue 655: April 17 - 23, 2008

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