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Notorious Trailer |
Notorious - Trailer Italiano |
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| Release Date
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16 January 2009 |
| Company
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Bystorm Films |
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Color |
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New York City, New York, USA |
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English |
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Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Biopic |
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R for pervasive language, some strong sexuality including dialogue, nudity, and for drug content. |
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USA |
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Overwiew :The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm. |
Starring :
Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Antonique Smith, Naturi Naughton, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Hector , Marc John Jefferies, Charles Malik Whitfield, Kevin Phillips
Directors :
George Tillman Jr
Producers :
Sean Combs, Voletta Wallace, Wayne Barrow, Mark Pitts, Robert Teitel, Trish Hoffman
Writers :
Cheo Hodari Coker, Reggie Rock Bythewood |
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USA Today - Claudia Puig
: It looks good, and facets of it shine, but behind the gilded facade there's not much there.
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B-
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Travis Nichols
: ...a lame hodgepodge...
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C
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San Francisco Chronicle - Justin Berton
: ...fawning...
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C
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Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
: ...this 'authorized' movie biography makes you long for the 'explicit' version...
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B-
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New York Times - A.O. Scott
: ...a messy, lively melodrama, reasonably faithful to the facts of Biggie’s life and wholeheartedly devoted to burnishing his myth.
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C+
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New York Post - Kyle Smith
: ...gives a heartfelt yet clear-eyed sendoff to the late Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace...
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B
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Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt
: Complex and involving biopic about the Notorious B.I.G. that never quite gives the full picture of its enigmatic central figure.
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B
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filmcritic.com - Chris Cabin
: ...profoundly inept...
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Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman
: ...a luridly unapologetic trip through the violence, hunger, verbal bravado, and money fever of the hip-hop world...
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B+
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E! Online - Matt Stevens
: ...this rapper flick is for real.
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B-
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Chicago Tribune - Matt Pais
: B.I.G. personalities, complicated legacies make this music biopic surprisingly G.O.O.D.
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B
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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: ...a good film in many ways...
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Boston Globe - Wesley Morris
: Built around a relaxed but vibrant performance by the rapper and first-time actor Jamal Woolard...
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B-
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MHSbOyCrAzYbAbE says @ Wednesday - January 21,2009
it was a great movie. if you are a hip hop fan you must see the movie. | | | | Reply | | |
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