Lenny Henry, the chubby-cheeked black comedian out of British TV, is given a chance to play a white Mafia hitman (under a ton of makeup), a Harlem pimp, James Brown's imaginary brother, a raisin, Othello, among others, and he takes that chance, or those chances, with relish. The plot that permits him to do so is a sieve. Director Charles Lane ("Sidewalk Stories"), who also has an on-screen role as a special-effects man, makes racial points only infrequently and gently. With Frank Langella. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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