Blankman is a 1994 superhero parody film starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier, who are both of In Living Color fame. The film was directed by Mike Binder and written by Damon Wayans and J. F. Lawton, whose biggest success was writing Pretty Woman. Darryl Walker is a clumsy nerdy appliance repairman, who is gifted and a genius. Blessed with a pure heart, Darryl has an optimstic Pollyannish personality. He is childishly naive to the realities of living in an inner city neighborhood that is gradually decaying.The area suffers from political corruption and the police are on strike. It... takes the murder of his grandmother, an avid supporter of Alderman Marvin Harris' anti corruption campaign for Mayor, by members of mobster Michael Minelli to awaken him to the realities of his city's urban decay. He expresses his frustrations by intervening in a situation and boldly saving an elderly transit passenger from being mugged, and by ranting about the general corruptible state that the city has become. Darryl was so pure and shielded from reality presumably because of his interest in inventing, that he does not even realize that there is a "crackhouse in front of our flat".
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| Release date: | August 19, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Mike Binder |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | C.O. Erickson, Eric L. Gold |
| Editor: | Adam Weiss |
| Music by: | Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, Miles Goodman |
| Cinematography: | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| Screenplay by: | Damon Wayans, J. F. Lawton |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |