White Men Are Cracking Up
6.2
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.
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Cast
17 people
Theo Omambala
Maisie Blue
No other roles listed
Jon Finch
Detective Margrave
Known for
Frenzy
Macbeth
Ngozi Onwurah
Bonnie Greer
George Faber
Alwin H. Kuchler
Tom Geoghegan
Buckley
Also in
Welcome II the Terrordome
Brave
Kumari Salgado
Penny Gold
Nick Simons
Sandwich Board Man
Also in
Experiment
Jeeves and Wooster
Ingrid Lewis
Bernard Lawrence
Homeless Man
Also in
Cyberon
Ngozi Onwurah Director · Bonnie Greer Screenplay Alwin H. Küchler Cinematographer
First release December 31, 1994 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Leda Serene Films
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · December 31, 1994
TV
United Kingdom · January 1, 1996
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
September 3, 2020 · Imagine Film Festival
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