Black Joy

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Black British

Director

Anthony Simmons

Cast

Dawn Hope, Floella Benjamin, Norman Beaton

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Black Joy is a British culture-clash comedy with Trevor Thomas starring as a Guyanese youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist.

UK | 1977 | 97 mins

Director

Anthony Simmons

Starring

Dawn Hope, Floella Benjamin, Norman Beaton, Oscar James, Paul Medford, Trevor Thomas

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Black British

Featuring an amazing soul-reggae soundtrack which includes: Jimmy Helm, Johnny Nash, Shirley & Co, Billy Paul, Aretha Franklin, The Cimarons, Gladys Knight, The Drifters and The Three Degrees

"The film has a pace and energy not often seen in British movies" Time Out

Languages

English

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