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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786306012299
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 630601229X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 36708
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
There's a fascinating film to be made about the pimp culture and the myth of the outlaw sexual entrepreneur. American Pimp, a slick and entertaining but rather timid documentary by filmmaking brother act Allen and Albert Hughes (Menace 2 Society, Dead Presidents) isn't quite it, but it's a captivating document nonetheless. Flashy, garrulous real-life characters with names like Charm, Rosebudd, Too $hort, C-Note, and the 'internationally known' Bishop Don Magic Juan take over their interviews with silver-tongued charm, spinning self-aggrandizing, often contradictory stories of life in the trade. The Hughes never challenge those contradictions and give only token representation to the women in the life (who have either bought into the myth or are too cowed to say differently). Apart from a few unguarded statements by less cagey subjects, the film avoids the seedy flip side to the so-called benevolent relationship between pimp and 'ho.' More to the Hughes' point is the fluid relationship between media image (as celebrated in such blaxploitation classics such as The Mack and Willie Dynamite) and street image. Simultaneously embracing and decrying their outlaw status, these pimps transform themselves into peacocklike fashion statements inspired by the very images they find so denigrating. They are undeniably dynamic characters playing out a bizarre fantasy of wealth, power, and swaggering sexuality, but if the film shows the cracks in their masks, it never manages to reveal the men under the money or expose the fallacy behind the fantasy. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - GET A PEEK AT A REALLY STRANGE WAY OF LIFE
Nothing amazing here, just a really interesting Film.I really cant call it a serious documentary on the business of Pussy for sale. But some interesting characters. You just got to love " Bishop Don Magic Juan " A lot of these men's ideas will feel Alien to most of us but it's interesting to hear and see there unique perspective on life and women and the Society that condemns them but is love with the Product they sell.Some of the dialogue is priceless as are some of the intimate moments between ... Read More
Rating:  - HAPPY!!!!
I LOOKED AROUND FOR A GREAT DEAL & I GOT 1 . IT WAS FAST EASY MY ORDER CAME VERY QUICK IN A FEW DAYS & IT WAS BRAND NEW I LOVED IT
Rating: - Get a grip.. it IS a documentary
I wonder about people sometimes.. they want the documentary to tell them right from wrong. That's just stupid.
This film is a verite style documentary.. they just interview pimps and prostitutes. Now think for a moment.. do you think these people are going to talk badly about their lifestyle? They are proud of it and say so. There are no rebuttals.. except in your own head (SO USE IT).. You HAVE to think.. and it does make you think.. because most of these guys are such good communicators ... Read More
Rating: - Best Documentary Ever
Probably the funniest documentary ever. If you love one line idioms, this is your movie. Learn the pimp parlance and use it in your daily interactions, it will get you places in life.
Rating: - dont confuse it man
Your opinion of this movie should not be influnced by the people it represents
Pimps suck, thats true but this documentary does not
It is a lot of spittin game, which sometimes comes out looking like the pimps are being glorified. But this is what these pimps are like, this is how they con and make their money, its a 24/7 thing for them.
Are they always telling the truth? of course not, but the documentary is an accurate representation of what some pimps are like (albiet on a superficial ... Read More
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