A Huey P. Newton Story

Spike Lee directed this made-for-cable adaptation of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show about the life and times of Huey P. Newton, who as one of the founders and key strategists of the Black Panther Party was among the most respected and feared figures in the Black Power movement of the late '60s ...more

While maintaining the essential stagey character of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show about the late black revolutionary, A Huey P. Newton Story offers plenty of stylistic flourishes to "open up" the play, beginning with several roving cameras and what must be an average shot time of around five seconds. That fragmentation isn't all that distracting, as it more or less matches Newton's own jumpiness; he admits he is not a man who is comfortable being a leader or a hero ("which is a sandwich," ...more