Black Dynamite

Year:

2010

Duration:

84 min

Genres:

Action | Comedy

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Scott Sanders

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2010-01-13

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $2,900,000

Opening Weekend: $131,862 (USA) (18 October 2009)

Gross: $228,477 (USA) (25 October 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Phyllis Applegate

Obba Babatundé

Osiris (as Obba Babatunde)

William Bassett

Captain Yancy

Troy Lindsey Brown

Kid #1

Fredella Calloway

Waitress

Cheryl Carter

Black Dynamite's Mother

Juka Ceesay

Valet Girl (as Juka Cesay)

Kevin Chapman

O'Leary

Tommy Davidson

Cream Corn

Lucky Davis

Paperboy

Nicholas Earley

Neighborhood Kid

Richard Edson

Dino

Jason Jack Edwards

Soul Brother (as Jason Jack Edwards)

Jon Kent Ethridge

12 year old Black Dynamite

Mary Evans

Woman at table

Cory Gluck

16 year old Jimmy

Dionne Gipson

Afroditey

Arsenio Hall

Tasty Freeze

Paul Hayes

Doctor

Darrel Heath

Militant 2

Erika Vution

Black Chick (as Ashli R. Jackson)

Justine Joli

White Woman Swimming

Izetta Karp

Granny

Irwin Keyes

Henchman

John Kerry

Chief

Charmane Star

Asian Chick (as Sheryn Lascano)

Daniel Leavitt

Teasing Boy #1

Buddy Lewis

Gunsmoke

Neil Lewis

18 year old Black Dynamite

Buddy Love

Drug Dealing Pimp

Brian McKnight

Sweet Meat

James McManus

Richard Nixon

Byron Minns

Bullhorn

Phil Morris

Saheed

Jessica Moreno

Dumb Broad #1

Joy Mulligan

Nurse

Tumani Nicole

Brikwilla

Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Mo Bitches

Victor Orlando

Club M.C.

Nicole Ari Parker

Mahogany Black

Damion Poitier

Thug #2 (as Damian Poitier)

Candace Rice

Shawanda

Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Gloria

John Salley

Kotex

Akhir Shabazz Regains

Freddie

Tucker Smallwood

Congressman Monroe James

Edwina Snowden

Black Chick #2

Brittney Sorensen

White Chick

Chris Spencer

Militant 1

Mike Starr

Rafelli

Larnell Stovall

Thug #1

Nicole Sullivan

Patricia Nixon

Nakia Secrest

Euphoria (as Nakia Syvonne)

Ben Tan

Kid #2

Paul Taylor

Pretty Terry

Al Vicente

Capo

Baron Vaughn

Jimmy

Jimmy Walker Jr.

Roscoe (as Jimmy Walker Jr)

Michael Jai White

Black Dynamite

Kym Whitley

Honey Bee

Lee Whittaker

Donut Man

Billy 'Sly' Williams

Willy Sly (as Billy Sly Williams)

Mykelti Williamson

Chicago Wind

Bokeem Woodbine

Black Hand Jack

Cedric Yarbrough

Chocolate Giddy-Up

Andre Younge

Reggie

Roger Yuan

Fiendish Dr. Wu

Pete Antico

Abraham Lincoln

Sorana Black

Disguised Waitress #1 (uncredited)

Sean Christopher

Nipsy (uncredited)

Andray Johnson

Karate Instructor (uncredited)

Lauren Mary Kim

Hoe (uncredited)

Jesse Lewis IV

Militant #3 (uncredited)

Alexis McCombs

Hooker (uncredited)

K.J. Middlebrooks

Pimp in barbershop

Kevin Murry

Nipsy's neighbor (uncredited)

Loren Oden

Leon St. James (uncredited)

Garen Petrossian

Goon 3 (uncredited)

John Rhymes

Suga Pimp (uncredited)

Charlotte Stokely

White Chick #2 (uncredited)

Poco Zocko

Goon (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The sex scene that introduces us to Black Dynamite at the beginning of the film features visual references to two Dolemite films starring Rudy Ray Moore. The alternating of POV and over the shoulder shots are the same techniques used for sex scenes in both Dolemite (1975) and The Human Tornado (1976).

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Michael Jai White has stated he was not just playing Black Dynamite, but also the actor playing Black Dynamte. The actor, Ferrante Jones, was a running back for the Baltimore Colts whose career ended due to a broken neck. If you pay attention you'll notice that Black Dynamite has a hard time turning his neck to one side. This is because of Jones' neck injury.

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The prosthetic penis worn by Gunsmoke is actually a flesh colored baby pacifier.

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Goofs

In the animated closing credits, Bokeem Woodbine's character name is listed as Black Hand Jack. The character is actually Back Hand Jack.

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In the diner scene, on the blackboard with the day's specials, scrambled is misspelled as "scrambed" and specials is written as "special's".

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The boom microphone is visible several times on the top of the frame. Usually if a boom mic is visible in a finished film, it is either because of a mistake made by the filmmakers during shooting or (much more frequently) a mistake made by the projectionist at the movie theater - but in the case of this movie, the mic being visible is a joke meant to parody the lack of film production expertise on the sets of the original "blaxploitation" movies that this movie is referencing.

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Quotes

Black Dynamite: Tiny. Get Pimpin Jake out of my trunk. Tell him the rest of my money by Wednesday or I'll make him stick himself.

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Black Dynamite: Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no never mind. Now that's your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?

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Fiendish Dr. Wu: You should try the Wu family Red Silk kung fu.

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