Watermelon Man
“His white bread world just turned upside brown!”
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Johanna
Language
en
Status
Released
How Watermelon Man performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$1.1M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$158K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
Godfrey Cambridge
Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
Althea Janine Gerber
Estelle Parsons
Althea Janine Gerber
Mr. Townsend
Howard Caine
Mr. Townsend
Bus Driver
D'Urville Martin
Bus Driver
Joe the Counterman
Mantan Moreland
Joe the Counterman
Janice Gerber
Erin Moran
Janice Gerber
Burton Gerber
Scott Garrett
Burton Gerber
Employment Office Clerk
Paul Williams
Employment Office Clerk
Dr. Wainwright
Kay E. Kuter
Dr. Wainwright
Erica
Kay Kimberly
Erica
Mr. Johnson
Irving Selbst
Mr. Johnson
Delivery Man
Emil Sitka
Delivery Man
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