Director Mario Van Peebles simplifies the complex production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film,"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his dad in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic accounts of Melvin's brash and sometimes fraudulent behaviour on the record of the film, including questionable antics such as writing bad checks, tricking a neighborhood fire department and allowing his sonMario, to take racy sex scenes at the age of 11.