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‘Bebe’s Kids’

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In adapting the late Robin Harris’ sketch about taking some obstreperous youngsters to an amusement park, director Bruce Smith and writer Reginald Hudlin & Co. have made the first animated theatrical feature with African American characters as principals. The result is an imaginative delight, yet it’s also blunt about what it’s like to be black in America. Amid the the amusement park fun, this 1992 film makes it quite clear how African Americans are too often viewed with suspicion and mistrust (Cinemax Saturday at 8:45 a.m.).

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