Respect
Memorable, entertaining music dominates Liesl Tommy's engaging, well-acted, intense, star-studded (Mary J. Blige, Tate Donovan, Tituss Burgess, Kelvin Hair, Heather Headley, and Gilbert Glenn Brown),145-minute biographical musical film that follows twenty years of the tumultuous career of talented, ambitious, legendary "Queen of Soul" singer and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin (Jennifer Hudson) from her singing gospel songs as a child (Skye Dakota Turner), who tragically lost her mother (Audra McDonald) at 12 years old, in 1952 in a Detroit church headed by her strict, controlling, divorced, Baptist preacher father (Forest Whitaker), her search for a unique style of voice during the 1960s, her marriage to her abusive and jealous first husband (Marlo Wayans) who managed her career, her struggles with alcoholism, to her rise to worldwide stardom with the help of a record producer (Marc Maron) and her backup-singing sisters (Saycon Sengbloh and Hailey Kilgore).
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