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Mood:
- SentimentalRoughSincere
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Plot:
- Musician's LifeTragic HeroRise To the TopRising To StardomAmbitionArtists and ShowbizUnfulfillmentMurder more...
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Genres:
- DramaMusic
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- New YorkUSAUrban Ghetto
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Hip Hop
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- Drugs/AlcoholNudityProfanitySexual Content
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Notorious, 2009
English
USA
Profile of Notorious
Notorious can be described as sentimental, sincere, and rough. The plot revolves around a tragic hero, rising to stardom, and the life of a musician. The main genre is drama. In approach, Notorious is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban ghetto. It is located in New York. Notorious takes place in the 1990s. The soundtrack is hip hop. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. Note that Notorious involves drugs/alcohol, nudity, and sexual content.
Summary of Notorious
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Christopher Wallace (Jamal Woolard) parlays his gift for storytelling into a career as a rap artist. Eventually dubbing himself Biggie Smalls, then later, the Notorious B.I.G., Wallace's tales about violent street life take him to the top of the rap charts. The subject he so often raps about catches up with him in March of 1997, when he is shot to death after leaving a party.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 January 2009 |
| Runtime: | 123 min |
Cast and Crew
as Voletta Wallace
as Sean Combs
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Critics Reviews
Newsweek
Though there was little surprise by the end--how could there be?--Notorious,' a movie about the life and death of rapper Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. Biggie), still managed to stun, unsettle and move...
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- by: Allison Samuels
The Hollywood Reporter
For a man apparently making his first film, Woolard carries the movie like a pro. Cross your fingers that this is no fluke, for this guy could be a real comer.
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- by: Kirk Honeycutt
Users Reviews
"NOTORIOUS" demands two things of a viewer: that you like rap music, and that you care (and believe in) its milieu and its superstars. I don't, on either count, and consequently found this film about the short life and even shorter career of a...
- 01.May.2009
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- by: Vic
- Vic rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
