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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene of Andrew Strerling being shot up by police can look bad today in the age of Black Lives Matter with police brutality and shooting of innocent civilains, especially those around the African-American community.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene of Andrew Strerling Sterling being shot up by police can look bad today in the age of Black Lives Matter with police brutality and shooting of innocent civilains, civilians, especially those around the African-American community.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This film makes points about racism that apply both to white and black people, with whites shouldn't assume blacks are always doing something illegal and blacks shouldn't feel oppressed just because things don't go their way.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some critics have wondered how effective the film would have been had more social satire humor been utilized.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some critics have wondered how effective the film would have been had more social satire humor been utilized.utilized.
* ValuesResonance: Stories of black people being attacked by police for entering their own homes have become sadly more common since this film came out, making Andrew Sterling's complaints about the system that much more relevant.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This film makes points about racism that apply both to white and black people, with whites shouldn't assume blacks are always doing something illegal and blacks shouldn't feel oppressed just because things don't go their way.

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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This film makes points about racism that apply both to white and black people, with whites shouldn't assume blacks are always doing something illegal and blacks shouldn't feel oppressed just because things don't go their way.way.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some critics have wondered how effective the film would have been had more social satire humor been utilized.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A film about a black man being mistaken for a thief and almost getting killed for it and it's PlayedForLaughs! Not helped by the fact much of the humor is sitcomesque.
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* PlayingAgainstType: BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.

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* PlayingAgainstType: BradDourif Creator/BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.
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* PlayingAgainstType: BradDourif in a rare comedic role as the well-meaning but clueless cop.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene of Andres Strerling being shot up by police can look bad today in the age of Black Lives Matter with police brutality and shooting of innocent civilains, especially those around the African-American community.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene of Andres Andrew Strerling being shot up by police can look bad today in the age of Black Lives Matter with police brutality and shooting of innocent civilains, especially those around the African-American community.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene of Andres Strerling being shot up by police can look bad today in the age of Black Lives Matter with police brutality and shooting of innocent civilains, especially those around the African-American community.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Andrew Sterling is talking to Amos Odell about his accomplishments, one of which is writing a play called ''Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?''. Eight years later, Creator/TheCoenBrothers made a [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou film with that exact title,]] minus the "Y" in "Yo".

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* HilariousInHindsight: Andrew Sterling is talking to Amos Odell about his accomplishments, one of which is writing a play called ''Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?''. Eight years later, Creator/TheCoenBrothers made a [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou film with that exact title,]] minus the "Y" in "Yo"."Yo".
*SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: This film makes points about racism that apply both to white and black people, with whites shouldn't assume blacks are always doing something illegal and blacks shouldn't feel oppressed just because things don't go their way.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Andrew Sterling is talking to Amos Odell about his accomplishments, one of which is writing a play called ''Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?''. Eight years later, Creator/TheCoenBrothers made a [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou film with that exact title,]] minus the "Y" in "Yo".

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