Black Joy (1977)

Directed by

Anthony Simmons

Genre

blaxploitation film, hood film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Guyanese teenager moves to London expecting an easy life but quickly runs into trouble. He falls in with a smooth-talking con man from the Caribbean who drags him from one mishap to another.

lightheartedcomedicironicchaoticbittersweetstreetwiseearthyfast-paced

What happens

Black Joy is a 1977 British film directed by Anthony Simmons. The story of an immigrant country boy in Brixton, London. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas stars as a Guyanese youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist. The film was adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali, who also wrote the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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