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Undercover Brother, the Glossary

Undercover Brother is a 2002 American satirical spy action comedy blaxploitation film directed by Malcolm D. Lee and starring Eddie Griffin.^[1]

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2000s spy action films
2000s spy comedy films
2002 action comedy films
African-American action comedy films
English-language spy comedy films
Films based on Internet-based works
Films directed by Malcolm D. Lee
Films scored by Stanley Clarke
Films with screenplays by Michael McCullers

Action comedy

Action comedy (often listed with a hyphen as action-comedy) is a genre that combines aspects of action and comedy.

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Affion Crockett

Affion Crockett is an American actor and comedian.

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Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups.

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African-American culture

African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture.

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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Aunjanue L. Ellis-Taylor (Ellis; born February 21, 1969) is an American actress.

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Billy Dee Williams

William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, novelist and painter.

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Black Reel Awards

The Black Reel Awards, or BRAs, is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in film (FAAAF) to recognize excellence of African Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora, in the global film industry, as assessed by the foundation’s voting membership.

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s, when the combined momentum of the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panthers spurred African American artists to reclaim the power of depiction of their ethnicity, and institutions like UCLA to provide financial assistance for African American students to study filmmaking. Undercover Brother and Blaxploitation are blaxploitation films.

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Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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Brian Grazer

Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer.

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Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

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Chi McBride

Kenneth "Chi" McBride (born September 23, 1961) is an American actor.

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Chris Kattan

Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American actor and comedian.

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Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.

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Corduroy

Corduroy is a textile with a distinctively raised "cord" or wale texture.

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Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Denise Richards

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and television personality.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Eddie Griffin

Edward Rubin Griffin (born July 15, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Gary Anthony Williams

Gary Anthony Williams (born March 14, 1966) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker.

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Gary Owen (born July 26, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)

"Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" is a funk song by Parliament.

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Hollywood Records

Hollywood Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group.

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Imagine Entertainment

Imagine Entertainment, formerly Imagine Films Entertainment, also known simply as Imagine, is an American film and television production company founded in November 1985 by producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard.

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Jack Noseworthy

Jack Evan Noseworthy Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in Event Horizon, U-571, Barb Wire, and Killing Kennedy.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.

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Jim Kelly (martial artist)

James Milton Kelly (May 5, 1946 – June 29, 2013) was an American athlete, martial artist, and actor.

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John Ridley

John Ridley IV (born October 1, 1964) is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Karaoke

Karaoke (カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.

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Khaki

The color khaki is a light shade of tan with a slight yellowish tinge.

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Kryptonite

Kryptonite is a fictional material that appears primarily in Superman stories published by DC Comics.

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Malcolm D. Lee

Malcolm D. Lee (born January 11, 1970) is an American filmmaker.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael Jai White

Michael Jai White is an American martial artist and actor.

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Michael McCullers

Michael McCullers (born 1971) is an American writer and director.

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Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American film critic and the author of two books on pre-Code Hollywood.

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Mothership Connection

Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Parachute pants

Parachute pants, originally known as flight pants, are a style of trousers characterized by the use of nylon, especially ripstop nylon.

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Parliament (band)

Parliament was an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as a flagship act of his P-Funk collective.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant

The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is both a crucial piece of infrastructure and an architecturally acclaimed historic building named after the longtime commissioner of Toronto's public works Roland Caldwell Harris.

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Robert Townsend (actor)

Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer.

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Roots (1977 miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of slavery in the United States.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Spider-Man (2002 film)

Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.

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Spy film

The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).

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Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands.

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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales.

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The Man

"The Man" is a slang phrase used in the United States to refer to figures of authority, including members of the government.

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The Sum of All Fears (film)

The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American spy thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Tom Clancy's 1991 novel of the same name.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk)

"Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk)" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg featuring Mr. Kane, Bootsy Collins, Quaze and Fred Wesley.

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Undercover Brother 2

Undercover Brother 2 is a 2019 American action comedy blaxploitation film directed by Leslie Small and starring Michael Jai White. Undercover Brother and Undercover Brother 2 are American spy comedy films, blaxploitation films, films based on Internet-based works, films scored by Stanley Clarke and Imagine Entertainment films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Brother

Also known as Conspiracy Brother.

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Undercover Brother, the Glossary

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See also

2000s spy action films

2000s spy comedy films

2002 action comedy films

African-American action comedy films

English-language spy comedy films

Films based on Internet-based works

Films directed by Malcolm D. Lee

Films scored by Stanley Clarke

Films with screenplays by Michael McCullers

References