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Black nativity, the holiday musical based on an original play by langston hughes and starring jennifer hudson, forest whitaker, angela bassett, tyrese and jacob latimore is out today the film offers a healing story of music and faith anchored solidly in the black christian faith. In a contemporary adaptation of langston hughes celebrated play, the holiday musical drama black nativity follows langstonjacob latimore, a streetwise teen from baltimore raised by a single. Black nativity is an impressive mosaic of africanamerican prose, music, and art set around the christmas holiday. The latter film is sweeter and slenderer, but thats only to be expected. Watch black nativity movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Forest whitaker and jennifer hudson written by stevie wonder. Find out when and where you can watch black nativity on tv with the full listings schedule at. When it opened off broadway in 1961, with a cast including marion. It may be thanksgiving week across the country but the christmas holiday has arrived in theatres a month early.
Black nativity release date was wednesday, november 27, 20. Once there, langston embarks on a journey of selfdiscovery in this inspiring story of faith, family and forgiveness. Black nativity is a 20 american musical drama film directed by kasi lemmons. Black nativity is an adaptation of a stage play by langston hughes which itself is the telling of the nativity with an entire black cast. Black nativity, with angela bassett and jennifer hudson the new. Although the movie s 35mm film images have a pleasingly oldschool richness, lemmons doesnt stage the musical numbers in dynamic or meaningful ways. Theres nothing particularly alarming for younger kids, but there are a couple of scenes when a young man has skirmishes with the law hes mistakenly arrested for pickpocketing when he was just trying to return the wallet and later tries to rob. In a contemporary adaptation of langston hughes celebrated play, the holiday musical drama black nativity follows langston jacob. Blige, jacob latimore, vondie curtishall, and rapper nas. Writer and director kasi lemmons turned langstons classical musical show into a major motion picture in 20. Black nativity directed by kasi lemmons and starring forest.
A streetwise teen from baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to new york city to spend the christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey. The narrative combines gritty realism with surrealism. We provide 20 movie release dates, cast, posters, trailers and ratings. Much of black nativity plays like a filmed record of that nonexistent production, transplanted to actual new york streets. Black nativity movie tv listings and schedule tv guide. Black nativity 1 hours and 33 minutes movie 20 in a.
Directed by kasi lemmons and starring forest whitaker, angela bassett, jennifer hudson and tyrese gibson. This is track 12 from the 20 black nativity soundtrack. Certain musical numbers and segments are quite entrancing such as the films opening minutes or the actual black nativity sequence presented as a dreamreal show in the movie while other segments are less engaging and suffer, especially when the projects limited budget starts to show. The movie version of black nativity stars jacob latimore. This film adaptation updates it as a loose parable. To wrap up, black nativity isnt the best holiday film we have this season and probably wont clean up at the cinema because in the end its just a quite average movie.
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