Black Nativity (Extended Musical Edition) (Blu-ray) PG
The Musical Event of the Holiday Season
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 7, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jacob Latimore, Mary J. Blige & Jennifer Hudson | |
| Performer: | Luke James, Grace Gibson & Nas | |
| Directed by | Kasi Lemmons | |
| Edited by | Terilyn A. Shropshire | |
| Screenplay by | Kasi Lemmons | |
| Original story by | Langston Hughes | |
| Composition by | Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq | |
| Produced by | William Horberg, T.D. Jakes, Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray & Trudie Styler | |
| Director of Photography: | Anastas Michos |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/5 --
To wrap up, Black Nativity isn't the best holiday film we have this season and probably won't clean up at the cinema because in the end it's just a quite average movie.
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Punch Drunk Critics
Rating: 2/5 --
Points for dogged credulity: whether trying to pass off Times Square as Judea or Tyrese "Fast & Furious" Gibson as the Angel Gabriel, it sincerely believes it. You, of course, are at liberty not to.
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Guardian
Even the movie's most wretched characters glow in the Harlem lamplight.
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NPR
The film, like the play, has a captivating gospel flavor that easily raises the roof beams.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 1/5 --
It's a misguided enterprise all round, and while it's perfectly possible to applaud everything the film wants to say, you find yourself cringing at the ways it's saying it.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
"Black Nativity," loosely based on a play by Langston Hughes, is brought beautifully to life by writer/director Kasi Lemmons, a true auteur in every sense of the word.
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Easy Reader (California)
I'm just going to describe the experience as Lemmons-esque, the result of a fearless and passionate dreamer whose deeper imaginative realms have become recognizable in her work.
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New York Amsterdam News
Product Description:
Director Kasi Lemmons updates Langston Hughes' acclaimed play for the screen in this inspirational musical drama with a positive spiritual message. Langston (Jacob Latimore) is a street-smart Baltimore teen who lives with his single mother Naima (Jennifer Hudson). It's Christmas, and this year Jordan is traveling to New York City for a stay with his distant relatives Reverend Cornell (Forest Whitaker) and Aretha Cobbs (Angela Bassett). When Reverent Cornell's strict rules prove too oppressive for the rebellious teen to handle, however, Jordan decides he'd rather spend the holidays with his mother, and embarks on an eye-opening journey that teaches him the true importance of faith and family.
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