BlacKkKlansman

Infiltrate Hate.

Lee’s most acclaimed and successful film since Do the Right Thing takes a look at how Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a fellow white office, who eventually became head of the local branch. The film narrowly avoided being banned here in South Africa.

135 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Prejudice, Blasphemy, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Comedy, Crime, Drama.

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Credits

Cast	John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller
Director	Spike Lee
Screenplay	Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, from the book by Ron Stallworth
Music	Terence Blanchard
Cinematography	Chayse Irvin
Editing	Barry Alexander Brown
Sound formats	Dolby Atmos
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2018
Produced by	40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Blumhouse Productions, Legendary Entertainment, Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, QC Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Biographical crime comedy.
Language	The film contains frequent strong impact language, including swearing and insults, as well as demeaning, prejudicial and blasphemous language.
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong impact violence occurs infrequently, including realistic footage of violent protests and descriptions of torture.
Prejudice	Frequent moderate impact prejudice based on race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
Blasphemy	Fairly frequent moderate impact blasphemy, with religion being used to justify prejudice.
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments	The biographical crime comedy BlacKkKlansman explores themes of racism, black liberation, teamwork, love, undercover police work, religion, power, race relations and segregation, presented in a historical, educational context involving prejudice. These themes are complex and mature, with themes off racism, bigotry and hatred based on race and religion being potentially confusing, upsetting or distressing to children under 16 years, particularly give the sense of threat and menace in which it is presented. However, the material contains educational messages against prejudice and segregation by black and Jewish lobby groups, and messages of tolerance within the police department towards the end of the film, which have a mitigating impact. Themes and displays of prejudice, bigotry and racism contains elements which can be seen to advocate hatred and incitement to cause harm and depicts acts which constitute incitement, encouragement and promotion of harmful behaviour. The material is however exempted from a “Refused Classification” based on dramatic and artistic value according to the proviso in Chapter 4 Section 18 (3)(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) of the Films and Publications Act.
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated R for language throughout, including racial epithets, and for disturbing/violent material and some sexual references
Runtime	135
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 15 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Masego Panyane Lee in top form in hilarious look at KKK.	10
Cape Times Unknown	15
24.com Alex Isaacs The best thing about this film is that it is uncompromising in the delivery of its message: America is racist. On every level. Throughout history and especially today.	20
Metacritic.com 53 critics	16
Rottentomatoes critics 216 critics	16
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events -- and brings out some of Spike Lee’s hardest-hitting work in decades along the way.	19
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	16
CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Lots of language in Lee’s fact-based dark comedy.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 63 users	15
Rottentomatoes users 2494 users	15
IMDB 6835 Netizens	15
The Movie DB Community	15
Average .. 78%	16