White Men Are Cracking Up

Name: White Men Are Cracking Up
Director: Ngozi Onwurah
Genre: Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1996-01-01
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Theo Omambala, Jon Finch, Tom Geoghegan, Nick Simons, Bernard Lawrence

Original title: White Men Are Cracking Up

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Synopsis

Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men. Through the blurred lines of perception and reality, the myth of the Black feminine mystique is explored under the guise of a murder mystery. The film explores the fetishization of Black women as a manifestation of white male insecurity.