Black Nativity : Movie Review


The musical has been around for almost as long as there has been cinema. It truly fell out of grace in the late 1960s but still keeps a toe-hold on the moviegoing experience. Les Miserables, Chicago and Rock of Ages have all been recent films that started on The Great White Way. The latest film to try and scale this mountain is Black Nativity.

The film starts out in Baltimore with a mom and son. Langston (Jacob Latimore) lives with his mother Naima (Jennifer Hudson) but has no relationship with any other member of his family. It seems that mom has been estranged from her family since before Langston can remember. The family has fallen on hard times and mom sends Langston to New York City for the Christmas holiday. Almost immediately, the young man gets in trouble and is thrown in jail.

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Author : Gary Murray