Livin' Large! (1991)

(Headline): A comedy about going from downtown to uptown.This hilarious free-wheeling (The New York Times) urban comedy about the price of success skewers well-earned targets with unpretentious charm and vigor (The Hollywood Reporter)! Make no mistake about it: Livin Large will leave you laughin large!His entire life Atlanta native Dexter Jackson (Terence T.C. Carson) has dreamt of one thing: breaking into the world of TV news. So when by freak coincidence he lands a job as Channel 4 s Man About Town he finally thinks he s made it. But in order to compete on the ladder of success Dexter soon begins to change his image and sell out his friends on TV! Before long he finds himself shunned and alone and faced with a not so black-and-white choice: save his career or his soul! Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 027616899637 Manufacturer No: 1005702 Product Description

Not sure what the point of this movie was....

Obviously, this movie was made in the early 90s and so I guess you have to allow for a little more understanding regarding the overly racial characatures. This would have been a decent comedy, but there is a definite effort to insert a 'message'. However, this movie's message was nothing more than a blurry ambiquity that made no real sense.

This movie tells the story of a black guy from the hood, Dexter Jackson, who gets into the news business and is manipulated by white people. The farther he gets into the business, the 'whiter' he becomes. (there is even a recurring nightmare of an extremely creepy white Dexter Jackson) Basically, white people in the movie were super articulate and completely ignorant to black culture in general (dude), while black people were all from the hood with an urban dialect and no clue (homeboy).

Becoming 'white' is portrayed as an absolute state of being that is bred by success and is ultimately bad in contrast to the black person Dexter was. In the end, this movie had good intentions (i think), but did nothing in the way of removing any racial barriers or helping lack of understanding. The plot is absurd and the characters are absolutely ridiculous because of their rapidly morphing personalities and two dimensional nature.

I admit, the beginning of the movie was entertaining and funny (then again, it was 3am and I was kinda bored). But by the end, I was laughing at the absolute crap it had turned into. December 30, 2005

horrid

this movie is horrid--i wonder if the acting was supposed to be this bad on purpose. and the message--that "success" somehow makes you white--the charicatures may have been there to make a point, and yeah it's playing like a period piece (early 90's) -- but why did baby bam (jungle brothers) have to be in this? as the narrator, "sidekick", he was the best thing about the flick. December 30, 2003

Decent...

I thought this was a pretty cool movie for the time period it came out in. It even had a message in it, which is : never forget who you are, where you have come from and gone through when you reach the success you set out to reach in life. December 30, 2001

it's garbage

This movie is apparently a comedy that turns out not to be funny when it tries to be and when it doesn't. I'm trying to think of one redeeming quality this movie contains, but there is none. Don't buy it. February 1, 2000

Oh, but no . . .

Don't waste your time with this one. It could have been a good movie, but the script got in the way. The only good thing about this flick is future "Living Single" star T.C. Carson (whom, you'll notice, NEVER mentions this movie). March 21, 1999

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