'80s Roulette: I'M GONNA GIT YOU, SUCKA

Keenen Ivory Wayans plants a flag and kicks off a family comedy empire

I have every single movie released in the United States on a hard drive and once a week, I’m going to hit shuffle and review whatever film comes up first.

Welcome to ‘80s Roulette!

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DECEMBER 16, 1988

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja’net DuBois, Dawnn Lewis, John Vernon, Clu Gulager, Kadeem Hardison, Damon Wayans, George James, Marc Figueroa, Robert Colbert, Marilyn Coleman, Jester Hairston, Hawthorne James, Anne-Marie Johnson, Gary Owens, Eve Plumb, Clarence Williams III, Michael Goldfinger, John Witherspoon, Homselle Joy, Vickilyn Reynolds, Paul Motley, Charles Cozart, Brian Maguire, David Alan Grier, Ariana Richards, Ben Ryan Ganger, Carl Craig, Nancy Cheryll Davis, Kim Wayans, Robin Harris, Cullen G. Chambers, Terri Bivalacqua, J.W. Alexander, Roy Fegan, Howard Allen, Bee-Be Smith, Bobby McGee, Dana Mackey, Ludie C. Washington, Bobby Mardis, Wren T. Brown, Nadia Wayans, Joya Thorner, Yvonne Doggett, Barry Craig, Maria Diaz, Tony Cox, Tom Wright, Eugene Robert Glazer, Michael Conn, Finis Henderson III, Chris Rock, Terry Christiano, Liza Cruzat, Peter McCarthy, Bentley Kyle Evans, Richard McGregor, Tommy Morgan Jr., Gerald Walker, Kojo Lewis, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Danny Raghunath, Doran Reed
cinematography by Tom Richmond
music by David Michael Frank
screenplay by Keenen Ivory Wayans
produced by Carl Craig and Peter McCarthy
directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
Rated R
1 hr 28 mins

Jack Spade returns from the Army only to learn the streets of his neighborhood are being run by a shadowy crime lord, and he puts together a team to fight back.

I went to go see I’m Gonna Git You Sucka with a bunch of my friends while I was home between semesters, my first year of college, and we had a blast with it. By that point, we were fairly fluent fans of Blaxploitation and it felt like a film that came from a place of deep affection for the best and the worst that the genre had to offer. More than that, though, it felt like an announcement that there was a deep talent pool that Hollywood had yet to figure out, ready and willing to step up with a brash new voice.