The Big Cigar

Miniserie
2024
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5,8/10

1058

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Alessandro Nivola, P.J. Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Tiffany Boone, and André Holland in The Big Cigar (2024)

Follows Huey P. Newton's life. He escaped to Cuba to avoid prosecution for murder with the help of Bert Schneider, the Hollywood producer behind Easy Rider, as well as a few other celebrity radicals.

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Verfolgt das Leben von Huey P. Newton. Er flüchtet nach Kuba, um mit Hilfe von Bert Schneider, dem Hollywood-Produzenten von Easy Rider, einer Anklage wegen Mordes zu entgehen.Verfolgt das Leben von Huey P. Newton. Er flüchtet nach Kuba, um mit Hilfe von Bert Schneider, dem Hollywood-Produzenten von Easy Rider, einer Anklage wegen Mordes zu entgehen.Verfolgt das Leben von Huey P. Newton. Er flüchtet nach Kuba, um mit Hilfe von Bert Schneider, dem Hollywood-Produzenten von Easy Rider, einer Anklage wegen Mordes zu entgehen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,8/10

1058

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Apple is getting good at making historical miniseries: Franklin, Manhunt and now The Big Cigar. You can think of each as a snapshot of the overall American saga of the search for freedom, in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.

The Big Cigar is the most cogent of the trio, focused just on one aspect of Huey P. Newton's life: fleeing trumped up murder charges with the help of some Hollywood admirers.

André Holland and Alessandro Nivola lead a very accomplished cast. They should have gotten some Emmys attention. The story has many "oh come on" moments but apparently is largely true, even the part about the underwater Jesus who had it in for the Black Panthers.

The one fault of the miniseries is the over-reliance on jarring flashbacks, with several flashbacks per episode that makes the whole thing jump around like a jack in the box on meth. It's only six episodes long, can't we just have one episode be the flashback and the rest normal?