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Roxanne Roxanne (2017)

Drama | 100 minutes
2,64 37 votes

Genre: Drama / Biography

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Michael Larnell

Stars: Chanté Adams, Mahershala Ali and Nia Long

IMDb score: 6,2 (3.934)

Releasedate: 22 January 2017

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Roxanne Roxanne plot

"Life is a battle."

In the early 1980s, the most feared MC battle in Queens, New York, was that of a rambunctious teenage girl who bore the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend. She spent a lot of time looking after her family while defending herself against the dangers of the street around the public housing units of Queensbridge in New York.

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scorsese

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Mediocre film about a Black teenage girl from New York who earns money by rapping. This biopic starts well, but it feels like it has all been seen before. Somewhat fragmented, given the significant time jumps (in that regard, there is a nice montage moment involving the childbirth). Not bad, but the whole thing fails to make a real impression anywhere. Just shy of 3.0 stars.

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centurion81

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Very mediocre film. The story, although biographical, had little substance and so much was covered that actually nothing at all—from making music, Shante's talent, the problems with her mother, taking care of her sisters, to the problems with her relationship—really came across.

Moreover, it seems as though the film has been sanitized for a young audience: bright colors, no swearing, literally lots of candy canes instead of cigarettes/joints... Considering that this was The Bronx in the eighties and that what actually happens was quite intense, this felt alienating to me. Add to that a display of implausible acting where the emotion being conveyed lay so strongly on the surface that it failed to strike a single chord with me, and I have no choice but to give this film a resounding failing grade.

Incidentally, what the lady in question briefly says to the camera afterwards made no sense to me either and seemed more like a random quote that appears vaguely applicable to what the viewer has just seen.

2*

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kos

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Yeah, indeed a film like so many others;

A young girl who really has everything against her, makes bad choices, etc., etc. Only then with a (coincidentally) famous rapper as the lead character.

It therefore deals primarily with her personal troubles over the years, and only sparingly with the music.

Which is not very surprising, because those heydays with the Roxanne Roxanne business were also very short-lived.

That's why it's quite funny that people like Bizmarkie, Marley Marl, MC Shan, and Nas drop by pretty casually, who all had much bigger careers than Roxanne herself.

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