Watermelon Man (1970) Criterion (1080p RM4K BluRay x265 10bit EAC...
Watermelon Man
ComedyDrama
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.
IMDb (6.7/10) | Metacritic (60/100) | Rotten Tomatoes (88%)
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director
Melvin Van Peebles
Writer
Herman Raucher
Actors
Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine
Plot Summary
Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
Note from Encoder
Encoded with a modified slow 2-Pass @ 10,000 kb/s. Includes English subtitles, a feature length commentary track plus a director's introduction audio track, and extras. Despite not having the Criterion logo at the beginning of the movie the video is in fact from the Criterion 4K remaster. The remuxer removed the logo at the beginning to save space and help sync the superior audio from the GBR Indicator release.
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File size: 7.43 GiB
Duration: 1 h 39 min
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Movie name: Watermelon Man (1970)
Encoded date: 2026-06-24 05:51:35 UTC
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Audio #2: English / AC-3 / 2 channels / 192 kb/s / The Guardian Interview with Director Melvin Van Peebles in conversation with Broadcaster Darcus Howe at London's NFT (1996)
Audio #3: English / AC-3 / 2 channels / 192 kb/s / Introduction by Director Melvin Van Peebles (first ~5mins only)
Subtitle #1: English / PGS / 69.5 kb/s / English SDH (USA Criterion)
Subtitle #2: English / PGS / 54.6 kb/s / English SDH (UK Indicator)
Chapters
00:00:00.000: en:Morning Fitness
00:04:22.220: en:Race the Bus
00:08:32.261: en:"I'm Not Hateful."
00:14:03.550: en:Wednesday
00:19:39.886: en:Nightmare
00:26:28.377: en:"Feeling a Bit Off-Color"
00:33:10.154: en:A Heck of a Tan
00:38:38.357: en:Sunlamp Delivery
00:47:13.746: en:Out of the House
00:53:32.625: en:A Change in Mr. Gerber
00:58:04.397: en:Private Club
01:02:07.431: en:Trip to the Doctor
01:10:42.487: en:"You're a Negro."
01:18:03.595: en:Undermining Property Values
01:26:10.998: en:Skin Deep
01:32:47.019: en:"Like it Never Happened"
01:38:47.754: en:End Credits
Source Information
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Extras: WATERMELON_MAN_CC_BLURAY (44.7 GB)
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