Beyond the Lights 2014
- Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Seen by this director: The Secret Life of Bees
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Danny Glover
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Summerland, The Cloverfield Paradox, Beauty and the Beast, Jupiter Ascending, Belle, Lost in Austen, Bonekickers, Doctor Who
- Nate Parker – The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters
- Minnie Driver – I Give It a Year, Phantom of the Opera, Return to Me, Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Circle of Friends
- Danny Glover – many.
- Why? Music
- Seen: 22 February 2024
Noni (Mbatha-Raw), a British rapper who
just won a Billboard award, tries to commit suicide by jumping off the hotel
balcony. Kaz (Parker), a cop with a dad (Glover) who has political ambitions
for him, saves her and is ordered to cover it up, calling it an accident. Her
manager and mother (Driver), who has been pushing her relentlessly since she
was a child, increases the pressure to keep up her positive sex-goddess image.
Predictably it becomes a love story but it goes a deeper than that. The anxiety of excessive fame, sexual exploitation in the world of pop music, parental ambitions, paparazzi madness, self-respect and identity.
4*
of 5
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