Respect (2021)
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Respect (2021)
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Released Year: 2021
Runtime: 145 minutes
Directors: Liesl Tommy
Casts: Marlon Wayans, Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald, Tate Donovan, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, Jennifer Hudson, Saycon Sengbloh, Tituss Burgess, Heather Headley, Hailey Kilgore, Skye Dakota Turner, Leroy McClain, Lodric D. Collins, Brenda Nicole Moorer, Brandon Gilpin
IMDB: Respect (2021)
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The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Respect has everything you could hope for in a musical biopic. It has a good story and great songs and, best of all, it has someone in the lead role who can put those songs over.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
A powerful account of self-actualization spanning 20 formative years, Liesl Tommy’s biopic is also an intimate gift of love, rich in complexity, spirituality, Black pride and feminist grit rooted not in didactic speeches but in authentic experience. The ageless music, of course, is the galvanizing force, but it’s the personal struggle behind it that makes the story so affecting.
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Movie Nation -
Stately as it is, Respect never quite becomes a “great film,” but Hudson, Whitaker, McDonald, Burgess and Maron ensure it’s never less than an entertaining one, a musical biography that gives the Queen of Soul her royal due.
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Variety -
Though Respect can feel a little soft in the drama department, it delivers the added pleasure of hearing Hudson re-create Franklin’s key songs, from the early jazz standards she covered for Columbia to her reinvention of the Otis Redding single that lends the film its name.
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TheWrap -
Even when the movie stumbles, Hudson’s bravura performance — and those extraordinary songs — steady its soul.
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The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.