Northwest Film Forum

Robert Downey’s brazen and bizarre satire on race relations and consumerism became the first major hit from the Underground. When the token black man at a Madison Avenue ad agency is accidentally put in charge, he replaces its white board members with militant soul brothers and creates a series of unconventional (and hilarious) campaigns. Bursting at the seams with irrelevancies, obscenities and improvisations, both the film’s form and its message condemn of all systems of social order.