Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
"YOU BLED MY MOMMA. YOU BLED MY POPPA. BUT YOU WONT BLEED ME."
ThumbScore
👍 65%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 73%
(RT: 73%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Melvin Van Peebles as Sweetback
Simon Chuckster as Beetle
John Dullaghan as Commissioner
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes as Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
Is Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song good?
It's divisive. 65% audience score, estimated from 123 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 73%.
Overview
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