Get on the Bus (1996) on Netflix
Fifteen Black men take a bus from Los Angeles to the Million Man March. George organizes the trip; Xavier wants to film it; Evan Jr. rides handcuffed to his father.
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Plot summary
In October 1995, Xavier, a film student, brings a camera aboard a bus carrying men from South Central Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. He interviews the passengers as they travel, and their exchanges take in manhood, religion, politics, sexuality and race. Flip is an actor, Kyle and Randall are a couple, Gary is a police officer of mixed race, Jamal is a former gang member who has become a Muslim, and Jay owns a bubble gum company. Craig, the original bus driver, has a teenage daughter who is pregnant. Evan Jr., arrested for petty theft, may come only while handcuffed to his father, Evan Sr. Jeremiah, the oldest passenger, draws energy from the march and from his African heritage.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Get on the Bus (1996)
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- Michael Jackson recorded the song "On the Line" specifically for Get on the Bus, where it plays over the opening credits. It was left off the soundtrack album and surfaced instead on the Limited Edition Minimax CD in his 1997 Ghosts box set, with a longer version on the 2004 box set The Ultimate Collection.
- Get on the Bus was the first film Spike Lee directed in which he does not appear, and it premiered on the first anniversary of the Million Man March.
