Baadasssss! is intensely personal cinema, a complex drama that links actor-director Mario Van Peebles with his filmmaking father, Melvin Van Peebles.

Through the filmmaking, and inside the film itself, the son visits the sins of the father and discovers a triumph, a legacy, a purpose. With all the emotional warts exposed but the love shining through, Mario not only directs Baadasssss! but he also plays his father as a younger man.
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