Get on the Bus

Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in Washington, D.C. in a bid for greater unity and understanding, Spike Lee's Get On the Bus follows a group of black men who take a charter bus from Los Angeles to the rally in ...more

Filmgoers who avoided Get on the Bus, expecting a harangue from Spike Lee in support of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, missed a good thing. Lee and his writer, Reggie Bythewood, do create the standard bomber crew cast of characters (ex-con, elderly vet of the Civil Rights era, gay couple, vain actor, light-skinned cop, Republican conservative) and mix them together for a cross-country trip, but the dramatic (and occasional comedic) payoff is well worth the setup. Not everyone on the bus is ...more