Get on the Bus (1996)

 

Release date: October 18, 1996

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Reggie Rock Bythewood

Starring: Thomas JeffersonByrd, De'aundre Bonds, Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton

Estimated budget: $32.4 million

Box office: $5.7 million

 

A disparate group of African-American men climb on a bus bound for the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. -- among them, Evan Sr. (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) and his son, Smooth (De'aundre Bonds), who have been shackled together as a condition of Smooth's temporary probation. Although the group begins the trip as strangers, their shared stories and experiences unite them as their discourse builds a portrait of what it means to be black in America.