Over the years I have found "hitting the tar baby" to be a useful metaphor for many work situations. However, nobody ever seemed to know what I was talking about, and now it's politically incorrect, even though the situation depicted actually highlighted Brer Rabbit's racism.
When I was small, my mother took my older brother and a friend to see the movie, and I never got to see it. I did, however, go to the dentist soon afterward and got a dose of nitrous oxide, which precipitated a technicolor dream wherein I met many Disney characters.
Despite that bit of payback, I've searched online for the movie on numerous occasions. I have never felt whatever version was being offered to be worth taking a chance on.