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Watermelon Man (1970)

Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Written by Herman Raucher, it tells the story of an extremely bigoted 1960s white insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber who wakes up one morning to find that he has become black. The premise for the film was inspired by Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and John Howard Griffin's autobiographical Black Like Me.

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Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release date: May 27, 1970
Running time: 98 minutes
Gross: $1.1 million (US/ Canada rentals)

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