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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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George Tillman Jr.
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Actors:
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Ginger Kroll,
Cyrus Farmer,
Mohamed Dione,
Dennis L.A. White,
David Costabile,
Jamal Woolard,
Menyone DeVeaux,
Ricky Smith,
Christopher Jordan Wallace,
Amanda Christopher,
Nina Daniels,
Jasper Briggs,
Derek Luke,
Marc John Jefferies,
Angela Bassett
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)152
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Plot Summary:
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NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. To the core freezing talent and bluff determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn terrace hustler (post-haste selling fracture to pointed women) to story of the greatest rappers of all time; THE Fabled B.I.G. Tread his organization be elevated to fame and his turn-down to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."
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Notorious (2009)
The life and curtailed times of rap star The Notorious B.I.G.
It might sound strange to deem a film that shows its main protagonist to be a teenage crack dealer, convict and shameless womaniser as a eulogy, but that's the mission statement of Notorious, a biopic of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, aka the Notorious B.I.G.
A rap sensation, gunned down at the age of just 24 in hip-hop's escalating 1990s East Coast/West Coast feud, Wallace came to prominence on the back of nihilistic, violent tales from the street, his debut album from 1994 entitled 'Ready To Die'. This enjoyable biopic exists solely to prove that Biggie, for all his sins, had found redemption and was, in fact, Ready To Live. Then again, produced by his own mother Voletta and t...
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