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Release Date:
12 February 2005 (USA)
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Tagline:
Play it. Sing it. Shout it. Feel it.
Plot:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Golden Globe.
Another 25 wins
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25 nominations
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(7 articles)
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Beautiful Film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | S. Epatha Merkerson | ... | Rachel "Nanny" Crosby |
 | Marcus Carl Franklin | ... | Ruben Santiago Jr. (as Marcus Franklin) |
 | Mos Def | ... | The Bandleader |
| Carmen Ejogo | ... | Alean |
 | Louis Gossett Jr. | ... | Ol'lem Taylor |
 | Macy Gray | ... | Pauline |
 | Terrence Howard | ... | Bill Crosby (as Terrance Dashon Howard) |
 | Ernie Hudson | ... | Dick Barrymore |
 | Delroy Lindo | ... | Mr. Lucious |
 | Rosie Perez | ... | Bertha |
| Ruben Santiago-Hudson | ... | Freddie Cobbs |
 | Liev Schreiber | ... | Ulysses Ford |
 | Jimmy Smits | ... | Ruben Santiago Sr. |
| Patricia Wettig | ... | Laura's Mother |
 | Charlayne Woodard | ... | Bill's Woman |
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95 min
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Canada:14A (Ontario) |
UK:12 (DVD rating) |
UK:15 (TV rating) |
Australia:M |
Singapore:M18 |
USA:PG-13
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Based on the autobiographical one-man show by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
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Continuity: When Rachel is getting $20 bills pinned on her, there are pinned bills on her right side including her arm, when they return to that scene, the bills are gone.
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Quotes:
Bertha:
Did you see all those negroes shouting "black power, black power"? Hair as nappy as can be!
Rachel "Nanny" Crosby: The black panthers?
Bertha: Yeah. I have all the "black power" they need right in my hot comb.
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Rachel "Nanny" Crosby: The black panthers?
Bertha: Yeah. I have all the "black power" they need right in my hot comb.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2006) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
But It's Alright
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I gave this film my rare 10 stars.
When I first began watching it and realized it would not be a film with a strong plot line I almost turned it off. I am very glad I didn't.
This is a character driven film, a true story, which revolves mainly around the life of Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, a strong, beautiful (inside and out)Black woman and how she touched the lives of so many in the community of Lackawanna.
Highly interesting not only its strong characterizations of Nanny and the people who lived at her boardinghouse, but also it gives us a look at what life and community were like for African Americans in the 1950's, prior to integration, and the good and bad sides of segregation and how it ultimately affected and changed the Black community.
In addition to excellent performances by all members of the cast, there is some fine singing and dancing from that era.