Tales from the Hood 2 (2018) on Netflix
Prison operator Dumass Beach is building an army of AI Robo-Patriots. He recruits the storyteller Mr. Simms to fill the machines' heads with tales that teach them who to arrest.
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Plot summary
Mr. Simms tells four stories to Dumass Beach, a prison operator who wants his new machine officers, the Robo-Patriots, to learn from them. In the first, siblings Audrey and Philip and their friend Zoe break into a museum of racist propaganda to take a doll named Golly Gee. In the second, robbers trying to find a businessman's fortune force a phony TV psychic named John Lloyd to channel a spirit. The third follows two men driving to a date with two women they met on Tinder. In the last, councilman Henry Bradley and his wife Emily, expecting a child after a miscarriage, are troubled by dreams of Emmett Till.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's segment "The Sacrifice" draws on the real case of Emmett Till; his mother, Mamie Till, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket so that her son's beaten face could be photographed and seen by the public, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
- Keith David took over the role of Mr. Simms, the storyteller, in Tales from the Hood 2; Clarence Williams III, who played Simms in the 1995 original, did not return because he had retired from acting.
