Film of the Day: Learning to Drive

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MOVIE

Hollywood Shuffle

1987

78 minutes (1 hrs 18 mins)

CAST & DIRECTOR BOX OFFICE DATA GLOBAL RELEASES TOP GROSSING NEWS

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Robert Townsend

Starring

Robert Townsend · Craigus R. Johnson · Helen Martin · Starletta DuPois · Marc Figueroa · Sarah Kaite Coughlan

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 20th March 1987

Sweden release: 17th July 1987

Finland release: 7th August 1987

Box Office Quickview

US box office

Box Office debut: 20th Mar '87
Debut position: 18
Highest position: 18
Debut gross: $95.7 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 1

Chart position history

UK box office

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
R

Total grosses

UK total gross
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£0

US total gross
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$95.7 Thousand

Global total gross
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25thframe.co.uk stats

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Director

Role

Robert Townsend

Directed By

Actor

Character

Robert Townsend

Bobby Taylor / Jasper / Speed / Sam Ace / Rambro

Craigus R. Johnson

Stevie Taylor

Helen Martin

Bobby's Grandmother

Starletta DuPois

Bobby's Mother

Marc Figueroa

Sitcom Father / Client #2

Sarah Kaite Coughlan

Sitcom Girlfriend / Rehearsing Actress

Sean Michal Flynn

Sitcom Boyfriend

Brad Sanders

Batty Boy

David McKnight

Uncle Ray

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Donald / Jheri Curl

Lou B. Washington

Tiny

Anne-Marie Johnson

Lydia / Willie Mae / Hooker #5

Don Reed

Maurice

Kim Wayans

Customer in Chair

Gregory Popeye Alexander

Pimp / Eddie Murphy-Type

Conni Marie Brazelton

Hooker #1 / Beautiful Girl #2

Lorrie Marlow

Hooker #2 / Reporter

Sena Ayn Black

Receptionist / Missy Ann / Woman on Cliff

Lisa Mende

Casting Director

Dom Irrera

Writer

Eugene Robert Glazer

Director / Teacher / Amadeus / Chicago Jones / Dirty Larry

Roy Fegan

Jesse Wilson / Slave #2 / Zombie

Jesse Aragon

Audition Actor / Student #1 / Punk

Bobby Mardis

Audition Actor / Basketball Player

Verda Bridges

Audition Actor / Bessie / Hostage

Bobby McGee

Audition Actor / Zombie Pimp / Eddie Murphy-Type

Rusty Cundieff

Audition Actor / Slave #1 / Zombie Pimp / Eddie Murphy-Type

Richard McGregor

Audition Actor / Zombie Pimp

Carl Craig

Audition Actor / Basketball Player

E.J. Murray

Actor in Audition

Nancy Cheryll Davis

Audition Actor / Hooker

Angela Teek

Audition Actor / Harriet / Hooker

Tony Edwards

Audition Actor / Eddie Murphy-Type

Grand L. Bush

Mandingo / Ricky Taylor / Hood #5

Richard Cummings Jr.

Slave #3 / Hood #1 / Theater Usher

Michael Smith

Student #2 / Zombie Pimp

Michael Conn

Teacher #2 / Police Detective #1

Jimmy Woodard

Advanced Student / Basketball Player / Tyrone

Franklyn Ajaye

Body Guard #1

Damon Wayans

Body Guard #2 / Willie

Michael Colyar

Body Guard #3

Donald Douglass

Basketball Player / Eddie Murphy Type

Christopher Jackson

Punk #1

Omar W. Hester

Eddie Murphy-Type

Kim Genelle

Beautiful Girl #1

Larry Cortinas

Chauffeur / TV Commercial Crew

Shirley Ann Jenkins

Cookie's Mother / Wardrobe

John Witherspoon

Mr. Jones

Jesse Kitten

Hood #2

Steve James

Hood #3

Nick Stewart

Cookie's Father

Le Tari

Rudy

Greg Ilaye Hartwell

Rehearsing Actor

Jake Blackschmidt

Snake Killer

Howard Allen

Agent #1

Steven Fertig

Agent #2

Michael LaViolette

Wardrobe Man

Paul Mooney

President of NAACP

Beverly Brown

Reporter

Tamra Kaggar

Reporter

Peter Krug

Reporter

Brad Laven

Reporter

Charlie Edwards

Reporter

Myra J.

Picketer #1

Wren T. Brown

Picketer #2

Tony Livingston

Cordella

Kathleen Clark

Award Presenter

Tammy Kaitz

Model with Award

Mark Westover

1st A. D.

Robert R. Shafer

Commercial Director

Nancy Scher

Client #1

Stephen Adrianson

TV Commercial Crew

Jim Beaver

Postal Worker

Beatriz Geraldo

Dancer

Michael C. Matthews

Dancer

Tommy Morgan Jr.

Lydia Nicole

Make-Up Woman

B.T. Taylor

Dancer