The F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby, adapted as a modern-day morality play in blackface. This fairly-faithful version explores the same themes as its source material, only with a hip-hop spin.
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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
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12/06/05
Christopher 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
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 CriticThe 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
"G" is a vacuous movie set in attractive locations.
04/17/09
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.
09/16/05
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10/29/05
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
Everyone in this movie is getting it on with someone else behind their lover's back, but only the women have to end up suffering for it. Nice, right?
10/28/05
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 CriticAnother strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average.
11/02/05
There is scarcely a minute's worth of believable human behavior on display in G, which builds to a climax as incoherent as it is ludicrous.
10/28/05
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10/29/05
Bottom 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
Reworking 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
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
props for being more ambitious than the average contemporary black romantic drama.
10/27/05
The women are shrewishly materialistic, the men are manipulative or violent and the Polo wardrobes look fabulous on everyone. It's an ugly affair overall, but at least you can say you've never seen such beautiful shirts.
10/28/05
[A] poorly acted, directed and written (but slick-looking) vanity project.
10/28/05
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