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Storyline

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

Released

2021-08-12
Revenue

$31,217,372
Budget

$55,000,000
Runtime

2hr 25m
Genre

Drama, Music, History
Status

Released
Language

English
6.6
Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bron Studios, Cinesite, Glickmania

Crew

Liesl Tommy

Director

Tracey Scott Wilson

Screenplay

Jonathan Glickman

Producer

Keywords:

pop singer biography african american history african american african american musician

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A Review by narrator56 7

Written by narrator56 on 2021-10-17

This was a good movie, and I enjoyed it. However, I don’t expect I will ever watch it a second time. In a way, it felt like I had already se... read more

A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-03-27

Much has been made of the late Aretha Franklin's choice of actress to portray her in this early career retrospective - but I wonder what she... read more

Much has been made of the late Aretha Franklin's choice of actress to portray her in this early career retrospective - but I wonder what she might have made of the rest of the cast? Jennifer Hudson is superb when she sings, she captures much of the range and vitality of Ms Franklin. Unfortunately, as an actress she fares a little less well, and coupled with a really mediocre supporting cast the film drags quite frequently. The chronology of the story is simple enough, depicting the transition from innocent young girl - a sort of vocal trophy for her father, woken up to enthusiastically perform to the great and the good at house parties - through her disputes with the same strongly willed father (Forest Whitaker) as she hooks up with 12-years older Ted White (Marlon Wayans) and starts her bumpy road to stardom. Maybe had there been more actual opportunity for Hudson to deliver more songs, then the film would have stood out more - but there is too much emphasis on the (frankly, occasionally quite horrifying) domestic problems that rather turn this into an authentic, but still rather uninteresting tale of drink induced family woes. Certainly, these go some way to explaining the gritty determination of the woman to succeed, but they are allowed a dominance in the film that after a while become a little bit cyclical, dull even. What is clearly evident is her pride in her race, but that was also inclusive - she worked with people based on their skills and abilities regardless of their colour - including the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section - and that proves testament to a woman prepared to demonstrate a free thinking that was well ahead of it's time. Marc Maron works quite well as her long-suffering Atlantic records producer Jerry Wexler and Mary J. Blige turns in an interesting interpretation of a slightly temperamental Dinah Washington, but for the main it's all down to Hudson and she just needed to focus more on the wonderfully powerful portfolio of songs and less on the somewhat clunky drama. Stick around for the very end - there is a great "bonus track" from the lady herself.

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A Review by Peter McGinn

This was a good movie, and I enjoyed it. However, I don’t expect I will ever watch it a second time. In a way, it felt like I had already seen it. And I get why: the experiences of women, even celebrity women, often mirror each other when i...