• Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Domestic Comedy, Urban Comedy
• Themes: Nannies and Caregivers, Mischievous Children
• Director: Bruce W. Smith
• Main Cast: Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jonell Green, Marques Houston
• Release Year: 1992
• Country: US
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

The first mainstream animated feature film directly aimed at African American audiences, Hyperion Productions' Bebe's Kids is based on a comedy routine by the late Robin Harris. Voiced by Faison Love, Harris endures a "date from hell" when he goes out with the lovely Jamika. His romantic rendezvous is ruined when he is stuck with Jamika's son-as well as Bebe's kids, three little horrors spawned from three different fathers. The worst of the batch is unhousebroken baby Peewee. The film manages within its 74 minute timeframe to skewer such topics as Hip-Hop music, urban riots and whitebread theme parks. Further proof that this is not a Disney flick was provided by the folks from the Motion Picture Production Code office, who bestowed a PG-13 rating upon the film. Bebe's Kids was released theatrically in tandem with the cartoon short Itsy Bitsy Spider, which was later spun off into a TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Faizon Love - Robin Harris
• Vanessa Bell Calloway - Jamika
• Jonell Green - LaShawn
• Marques Houston - Kahlil

Tone-Loc - Pee Wee; Myra J. - Dorothea; Nell Carter - Vivian; Louie Anderson - Security Guard; Barry Diamond - Motorcycle Cop; Barry Diamond - Nuclear Father; Judi M. Durand; Tom Everett - 2nd Security Guard; Greg Finley; Philip Glasser - Opie; John La Fayette; Tina Lifford; Rich Little - Richard Nixon; Arvie Lowe, Jr.; Kerrigan Maham - 3rd Security Guard/ Fun World Patrolman; DeVaughn Walter Nixon; Pete Renaday - Announcer/ President Lincoln/ Impericon/ Tommy Toad; Reynaldo Rey - Lush; Brad Sanders - Bartender; Gary Schwartz; Susan Silo - Nuclear Mother; Susan Silo - Rodney Rodent; Susan Silo - Ticketlady; George D. Wallace - 4th Card Player; Chino "Fats" Williams - 2nd Card Player; Rodney Winfield - 3rd Card Player; John Witherspoon - 1st Card Player; Michelle Davison; Wayne Collins, Jr. - Leon; J.D. Hall; Doris Hess; Jack Lynch - Richie; Eileen Mack Knight; Barbara Iley; Bebe Drake - Barfly

Credit

Reginald Hudlin - Producer; Reginald Hudlin - Screenwriter; John Barnes - Composer (Music Score); Chris Buck - Animator; Willard Carroll - Producer; Fred Cline - Production Designer; Lennie Graves - Animator; Warrington Hudlin - Producer; Lynne Southerland - Associate Producer; Lynne Southerland - Editor; Frans Vischer - Animator; Thomas L. Wilhite - Producer; Robert L. Harman - Musical Direction/Supervision; David R. Cobb - Co-producer; Bruce W. Smith - Director

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