Putney Swope (1969)
- Directed by
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 82 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Black advertising executive is accidentally elected chairman of a Madison Avenue agency. He turns the firm upside down with radical new policies that parody corporate culture, race relations, and consumerism.
satiricalchaoticabsurdistfast-pacedirreverentprovocativedarkly comicedgy
What happens
Putney Swope is a 1969 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr., and starring Arnold Johnson as the title character, a black advertising executive. The film satirizes the advertising world, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films and the nature of corporate corruption. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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