Whitney (2015)Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown. Director:Angela BassettWriter:Shem Bitterman |
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Whitney (2015)Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown. Director:Angela BassettWriter:Shem Bitterman |
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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Yaya DaCosta | ... | ||
Arlen Escarpeta | ... | ||
Yolonda Ross | ... |
Robyn Crawford
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Suzzanne Douglas | ... |
Cissy Houston
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Mark Rolston | ... |
Clive Davis
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Wesley Jonathan | ... |
Babyface
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Hampton Fluker | ... |
Steve
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Reign Morton | ... |
Eddie Murphy
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James A. Watson Jr. | ... |
John Houston
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Kevontay Jackson | ... |
Gangbanger
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Noree Victoria | ... |
Sheryl
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Nafessa Williams | ... |
Kim
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Billy 'Sly' Williams | ... |
Pastor Marvin Winans
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Saundra McClain | ... |
Aunt Bae
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Deborah Lacey | ... |
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Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Despite some good performances by Yaya DaCosta as whitney houston and the rest of the cast, this TV movie offers very little to the teleplay and even less about story, it's a story about whitney houston and her disastrous marriage to bobby brown all these years, plus her drug addiction and other stuff including bobby Christina, director angela bassett of what's love got to do with it and waiting to exhale fame has hit all the right notes, but misses it thanks to the overlong teleplay and so so cinematography, although this is not as bad as that truly dreadful aaliyah biography last year that was on lifetime, thanks to the better acting here, but still this is a serviceable film from a predicable Hollywood. I'm giving this one a C+