Movie Buzz In the film Stuck, Mena Suvari plays Brandi, a character based on an African American woman who was convicted of murder after abandoning a homeless man she'd hit with her car. Suvari, who dons cornrows and "ghetto fabulous nails" to play the part, describes her character as "a particular kind of girl from a particular place," which must be the new way of saying 'urban'.
Movie Buzz Ben Stiller's new movie features Robert Downey Jr. as an actor who dyes his skin brown to play a black soldier in an epic Vietnam film. In Tropic Thunder (Stiller's first directorial endeavor since 2001's male modeling parody Zoolander), the filmmaker turns his satirical lens towards self-indulgent actors. Let the comparisons to Soul Man begin.
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