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The Watermelon Woman

“Sometimes you have to create your own history.”

March 5, 19971h 25m
DramaComedyRomance

70%

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A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

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