The Watermelon Woman
Movie • 1996 • Drama
ReportCheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical "mammy" roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an "out" black lesbian.
This movie contains 8 potentially triggering events.
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a couple scenes where people are drinking, they don't get worse than mopey b/c of it though
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it mentions a woman who was very sick and had to be taken to the hospital, but no scenes in the hospital
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Briefly somebody mentions white feminist culture as people having bulimia and anorexia.
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it's a mockumentary, so there's a few home movie style shots with shakey cam
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dy** for lesbians is used by lesbians (reclaiming the word, not used in a derogatory manner).
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There are incidents of racism & racial profiling.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Yes but not onscreen & by natural causes
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In a couple of scenes the terms "crazy" and "mentally ill" are equated.
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spoken by black characters only
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long sex scene with graphic nudity
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