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Little Richard (2000)
As this film travels back and forth in time, we witness Richard's far-from-idyllic childhood as the son of sharecropper Bud Penniman (Carl Lumbly), who couldn't abide his son's effeminacy. Although an embarrassment to his father, young Richard's mother (Jenifer Lewis) doted on him and he found solace singing gospel music in church. After running away to Atlanta, Richard quickly graduates from kitchen work to plunking a vaudeville piano. Backed up by a local band, Little Richard starts performing and enjoys his first taste of recording success. Then, just as his father grudgingly accepts his son for his talent, he dies while defending Richard's name against homophobic insinuations. More ambitious than ever, Little Richard exchanges his sympathetic back-up band for more talented players, even though they also denigrate his manhood. Achieving mainstream fame with such recordings as "Tutti Fruiti" and "Long Tall Sally" (not to mention the hit 1956 movie THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT), he never entirely resists the lure of ministering through music. Although Little Richard raises the rafters for Jesus, the secular performing bug always reclaims him.
| Release Date: | February 20th, 2000 |
| Running Time: | 120 minutes |
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It is fitting on a musical Sunday to get your heart a pumping, and no one can do that better than Little Richard. The man could sing the drawers off the ladies and defined rock and roll.
Look to Leon to provide a definitive characterization, as he has done so with David Ruffin in The Temptations and Jackie Wilson in Mr....
(complete Little Richard review by Movie Addict)
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