Chris Rock has been struggling for a long time now trying to find a movie vehicle that allows him to be as funny AND smart as he is in his standup... easier said than done for black comic actors not named Will Smith or Eddie Murphy. Previously the closest he got was "Head of State," a wildly-uneven, already-forgotten boxoffice dud centered around the ka-raaaaazy premise of a Black presidential candidate... ;)
Now he's produced his own film, a comic documentary about the hugely-profitable yet (to most white people, myself included) business of special chemical, treatments and equipment to "straighten" black women's hair; plus the offbeat, somewhat-troubling cultural issues surrounding it:
I'd say this looks like the Chris Rock movie I've been waiting for.
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