The producers may be right to bemoan Hollywood's myopia; but it's the movie's execution, not its vision of an alternative African-American cinema, that delayed its release.
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G (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:7
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Race and class struggles come to the Hamptons in this reworking of The Great Gatsby with a hip-hop flavor. Unfortunately, too many subplots and a lack of believable characters spoil an otherwise novel concept.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Sep 16, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $2,964,475
Synopsis: G is a contemporary African-American romance inspired by the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story The Great Gatsby. Set amidst the grandeur of the ultra elite Hamptons, G follows self-made... [More]
Starring: Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell, Andre Royo
Director: Christopher Scott Cherot
Reviews for G
The filmmakers are going for something operatic here with their mix of love and loss, rap and race. They miss. By a lot.
10/27/05
Top CriticChristopher Scott Cherot's drama is an honorable attempt laid low by a verbose script, cheap production values, and a general tendency toward soap opera.
10/28/05
Top CriticBottom line: It works even if you’ve never heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald. But it’s twice as much fun if you have.
10/28/05
The problem with G is not merely that the ending doesn't work and feels hopelessly contrived. It's also that the plot adds too many unnecessary characters and subplots, so that the main line gets misplaced.
10/27/05
Top CriticIn nimbly sidestepping the burden of textual fidelity, director Christopher Scott Cherot’s freeform Fitzgerald riff captures the novel’s sense of unrequited yearning better than any of Hollywood’s more slavishly faithful attempts.
10/27/05
Top CriticReworking the story with a hip-hop record mogul at its center comes across as little more than a stunt. And not a very good stunt.
11/02/05
An unpolished but entertaining tragedy filled with outstanding performances and memorable moments.
10/28/05
Top Critic[It] would be a fascinating exercise -- both artistic and anthropological -- if one word of G were authentic, artful or even borderline believable.
09/16/05
Top CriticThe decadent world of Hamptonite hip-hop moguls is a fitting backdrop for this somewhat faithful but not very graceful retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great Gatsby.'
10/27/05
Top CriticAnother strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average.
11/02/05
Top CriticNo green light but the one mistakenly given to start production.
11/01/05
Top Critic[A] poorly acted, directed and written (but slick-looking) vanity project.
10/28/05
Top CriticFails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms.
10/27/05
The book was about class and the American dream. The movie is too, though it's most interested in the soap opera machinations of the plot.
10/28/05
Top CriticYou should never make a movie about boundless, conspicuous wealth on an indie budget.
10/28/05
G often resembles a glossy BET soap opera...Cherot does capture the decadence of its slick “playas” in the extravagant world of bling-worshipping music moguls
10/29/05
I still thought there were enough good performances, great visuals, and an interesting examination of a lifestyle in a way that we haven’t seen a lot of times in movies for me to recommend it.
10/31/05
Top Critic"G" is a vacuous movie set in attractive locations.
04/17/09
props for being more ambitious than the average contemporary black romantic drama.
10/27/05
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