Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson

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It runs a compact 1h 9m.

Synopsis

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.

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Key crew

• Jodi GomesDirector

Cast

• Janet JacksonSelf (archive footage)
• Justin TimberlakeSelf (archive footage)
• Tito JacksonSelf
• Beth McCarthy-MillerSelf
• Marc Lamont HillSelf
• Cathy HughesSelf
• Michael MustoSelf
• Alan LightSelf
• Paul TagliabueSelf
• TJ JacksonSelf
• Taj JacksonSelf
• TouréSelf

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