Only really comes to exuberant life during the musical numbers.
Babymother
United Kingdom · 1998
1h 22m
Director Julian Henriques
Starring Anjela Lauren Smith, Caroline Chikezie, Don Warrington, Vas Blackwood
Genre Drama, Music, TV Movie
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A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing project with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
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Writer-director Julian Henriquez does a great job staging the lively musical numbers.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
A fresh and spirited fairy tale.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Would much rather wallow in music than develop the strands of a story.
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