Blankman is a 1994 superhero parody film starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier, who are both of In Living Color fame. The film was directed by Mike Binder and written by Damon Wayans and J. F. Lawton.
Darryl (Damon Wayans) is a clumsy nerdy appliance repairman, who is a gifted genius and blessed with a pure heart and optimistic Pollyannish personality. He is childishly naive to the realities of living in an inner city neighborhood that is gr...
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Blankman is a 1994 superhero parody film starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier, who are both of In Living Color fame. The film was directed by Mike Binder and written by Damon Wayans and J. F. Lawton.
Darryl (Damon Wayans) is a clumsy nerdy appliance repairman, who is a gifted genius and blessed with a pure heart and optimistic Pollyannish personality. He is childishly naive to the realities of living in an inner city neighborhood that is gradually decaying, political corruption, and the police are on strike. It takes the murder of his grandmother, an avid supporter of Alderman Marvin Harris' anti corruption campaign for Mayor, by members of mobster Michael Minelli to awaken him to the realities of his city's urban decay.
He expresses his frustrations by forcefully protecting an elderly transit passenger from being mugged, and by ranting about the general corruptible state that the city has become. He was so pure and shielded from reality presumably because of his inventing that...
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