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I'm in because the sign outside says Every conversation is "And orphans lowed; every car scene seems don't have parents!" to involve a shootout; every Scott Sanders' wickedly silly woman is a fox. (There's a '70s-style blaxploitation spoof, hint of the logical outcome of winner of the Golden Space Black Dynamite's busy love Needle for best film at the life: Two kids, met by chance, Seattle International Film Fes- both think their absent father's tival this year, is full of lines name is Black Dynamite. His like that maybe not so fun- nervous reply: "Um, a lot of ny to read, but a scream to cats have that hear. "Your mama would turn At 84 minutes, "Black Dynaover in her grave if she were mite" doesn't outstay its welhere to see this," says an aunt. come, and screenwriters pull "There's no I in out an unexpected (and funsays Black Dynamite, and ny) final act involving a '70s quickly corrects himself.

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