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Mood:
Sentimental Rough Sincere
Plot:
Musician's Life Tragic Hero Rise To the Top Rising To Stardom Ambition Artists and Showbiz Unfulfillment Murder more...
Genres:
Drama Music
Time/Period:
90s
Place:
New York USA Urban Ghetto
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Biography Based on True Story
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Serious Realistic
Score:
Hip Hop
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Drugs/Alcohol Nudity Profanity Sexual Content

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Notorious, 2009

Starring: Angela Bassett, Derek Luke

Directed by: George Tillman Jr.

Written by: Reggie Rock Bythewood

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 122 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.4

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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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	16 January 2009
Runtime:	122 min

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Angela Bassett

as Voletta Wallace

Derek Luke

as Sean Combs

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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... Full Review

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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. Full Review

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by: Kirk Honeycutt

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A searing look at a cultural phenomenon. How Notorious B.I.G. ended up getting shot to death was a mystery when it happened and remains a mystery today. A good movie I highly recommend it. I give it 4****STARS. Read and rate it

10.January.2011
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by: Netflowers
Netflowers rated this movie0/10

"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... Read and rate it

01.May.2009
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by: Vic
Vic rated this movie4/10Disappointing

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