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 Release Date: 2001 Tagline: In music she found her dream, her love, herself. Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall Writers: Cheryl L. West (story), Kate Lanier
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| Plot Synopsis by Sarah: This update of A Star is Born, directed by actor Vondie Curtis-Hall, follows the lightning fast rise to fame of Billie Frank (Mariah Carey), a “young” bi-racial woman with the voice of an angel and an unexplained silver rash that migrates around her torso.
As a child, Billie’s mother, a boozed up, broken down blues singer, accidentally burns down their house with a cigarette. Perhaps realizing that raising a daughter cuts into too much of her vodka money, she ships Billie off to an orphanage where she meets fellow ragamuffins Louise and Roxanne. They totally become BFFs, you guys. Like seriously. We flash forward to 1983, where Billie & friends are hoochie go-go dancing in some big New York club. Record producer Timothy Walker (Terrence Howard) approaches them to sing back up for his beautiful but tone-deaf girlfriend Sylk. But über-DJ Dice (Max Beesley) finds out who the real talent is in the group and makes a suspect deal with Timothy, “buying” Billie out of her contract. So, long story kinda short, they record a hit single, he gets her signed to a big label, he plays the marimba for her, she drops her pants, he turns into a big douche as she becomes more famous, the label replaces him as her producer, they fight and break up and she goes to live with her orphan friends. Now, somewhere in there, Billie records a duet with Eric Benét and Timothy shows up to collect on Dice’s dicey deal (you like what I did there?) but Dice tells him to f- off and then beats him up. Ooh, it’s on now! Dice should have checked himself before he wrecked himself. Mm-hmm. Because, you see, Dice is on the verge of reconciliation with Billie and, as he goes to see her perform at her big sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden, Timothy caps his punk ass in the street. Billie learns of his death as she reaches the venue but, callous bitch that she is, she decides to go on with the show. Fade out. The End. Ha! Fooled you! They had room for five more minutes of crap. Weeeee! After the show, Billie gets a note from the now-dead Dice saying that he’s tracked down her deadbeat mom. So, after an all night limo ride to Maryland, Billie is reunited with her long lost mother. Woo. |
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