Black Joy (film)
| Black Joy | |
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| Directed by | Anthony Simmons |
| Screenplay by | Jamal Ali |
| Based on | Dark Days and Light Nights (play) by Jamal Ali |
| Produced by | Elliott Kastner Arnon Milchan Martin Campbell |
| Starring | Norman Beaton Trevor Thomas |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Edited by | Thom Noble |
| Music by | Gladys Knight & the Pips Aretha Franklin Jimmy Helms The Drifters Ben E. King The O'Jays |
| Distributed by | Hemdale Film Distributors |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £31,720 or $350,000 |
| Box office | £87,576 |
Black Joy is a 1977 British film directed by Anthony Simmons. The story of an immigrant country boy in Brixton, London. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas stars as a Guyanese youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist.
The film was adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali, who also wrote the screenplay.