Zebrahead

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02/05/2016 If you can find it, watch it. Rappaport is great. Music is good. See more 06/21/2015 Overlong third act, horrible opening credits, but otherwise a good movie. I really like the color palette and how freewheeling the first act is. See more 03/28/2014 good topic and it gets better as the story unfolds...and it possibly was somewhat more relevant a little while back...but the problems they face in the story def. still exists. See more 03/03/2014 It is best known for containing Nas' first single "Halftime". That's enough for me to call this a classic!!! See more 12/18/2011 Caught this late one night on Encore and my low expectations were definitely exceeded. Never can pinpoint it, but for some reason I like just about anything with Michael Rapaport in it. See more 09/03/2011 Michael Rapaport's breakout film, which typecast him into similar roles throughout his movie career. He plays a Jewish high school student, Zach Glass, who attends a predominately African-American school in Detroit. He lives with his father, a lover of women and music, who owns a record store along with Zach's grandfather. Zach shares his father's passions. He sells hip-hop tapes out of his locker at school, and becomes infatuated with an attractive, intelligent African-American female, Nikki, whom he eventually has a sexual relationship with. Nikki is now Glass' girlfriend. Glass' best friend, Dee, is Nikki's cousin, and is OK with their interracial dalliance. However, Nikki's family and other black students at the high school are not, and make their disapproval of the relationship known. One of the most vocal opponents of the love match is a hoodlum, Nut, who is himself sexually attracted to Nikki, making his already-present contempt of Glass all the more palpable. Glass takes Nikki to a party thrown by his white ex-girlfriend (Nikki was invited), and everything is going fine, until Nikki overhears Zach making an inappropriate comment about her to his white friends in order to justify his interracial relationship to them. She immediately leaves the party, and tells Zach that she wants nothing to do with him. During this time, Nut attempts to romance Nikki, and they share a consensual kiss, but Nikki comes to her senses, and pushes him away, obviously still thinking about Zach. A few days later, Zach comes to Nikki's house and apologizes for his actions, which she finally accepts. She invites Zach to meet her at the local skating rink that night, and he agrees. Later at the rink, Nikki is approached by Nut, who is still trying to make advances towards her. Zach shows up and sees Nut and Nikki holding arms while skating together. Zach and Dee eventually approach Nut, and a confrontation ensues, with tragic results. Zebrahead is a good film that shows racial tensions in a realistic manner, and shows the harm that can result from such tensions, and gives a clear message that it is wrong. Three and one-half stars. See more Read all reviews

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