Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
- Won 2 Oscars
- 45 wins & 89 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector Shaka King has described the initial idea for the film as "The Departed (2006) inside the world of COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program)." He thought it was a clever way to "sort of Trojan-horse a Fred Hampton biopic and introduce the world, you know, a great segment of the world who is unaware of who he was, and is highly unaware of the Panthers' politics and ideology."
- GoofsThe movie's ending sequence includes an information card implying that William O'Neal committed suicide after his PBS interview aired, on 15 January 1990. That isn't accurate. The PBS series 'Eyes on the Prize' did debut on that date, but the O'Neal interview did not air until 9 February, three and a half weeks after O'Neal's suicide. No one knows why O'Neal chose kill himself on 15 January, and his family disputed that his traffic fatality was a suicide. They claimed it was an accident.
- Quotes
Fred Hampton: Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed
- SoundtracksThe Inflated Tear
Written by Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Featured review
READ THE MOVIE TITLE!!
I haven't written a review in awhile, but felt compelled to do so because numerous reviews complaining about the movie as some sort of failed Fred Hampton biopic...
The movie is titled JUDAS and the Black Messiah, in which we should all be able to discern who's whom, and understand why the movie isn't just about Fred Hampton, so all of you with your fake woke-ness can stop talking about how shallow this movie is or how they didn't do enough, and then counterintuitively discredit this accomplishment of a film about an important part of the U.S. history!
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- calvinc1203
- Mar 9, 2021
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Box office
- Budget
- $26,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,478,009
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,027,076
- Feb 14, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $7,478,009
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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