Patti cakes movie metacritic

Patricia dombrowski danielle macdonald is a 23 year old woman who lives with her mother bridget everett and grandmother cathy moriarty in suburban new jersey. Patti cakes is an instant classic that unfortunately flew under the radar postsundance and deserved far more recognition than it got. Like a lesser 8 mile, this story focuses on a white persons thirst to be taken seriously as a rapper, by both her peers and by her family. She lives with her largerthanlife mother barb bridgett. Its like an 8 mile for this generation except a little more comedic. Attempting to break into one of the hardest music cultures in the industry and justify her serious rapping repertoire to naysayers, patti never loses faith in herself or those closest to her. As debuts go, patti cakes is right up there with some of the better efforts. Geremy jasper writes and directs this film about patricia dombrowski aka killa p aka patti cakes, an aspiring rapper.

Or its easy to see why if the year was 2007, not 2017. This movie is the story of killer p as she chases some notion of success or acceptance, such as by leaving her town or having her favorite rapper approve of her. At the age of 23 she is overwhelmed by that crushingly relatable sensation of having achieved nothing in life thus far. Patti is a poor white girl in a poor white neighborhood. Shes 23yearold patricia dombrowski, a new jersey nati. It was released on august 18, 2017, by fox searchlight pictures. It was screened in the us dramatic competition section of the 2017 sundance film festival. This proves a huge problem for the movies emotional worth, which banks on the mixtape as both a comedic comingtogether device, but a legitimately good piece of music its straightup garbage that could make pbnj the real deal. Except danielle macdonald, its star, and she is an original. Theres a lot which could have gone wrong, but geremy japser does a fine job of uniting a lot of disparate ideas. In a bar scene, patricia is helping her drunk mom in a stall of the bathroom.

Like princes kid in his 1984 movie breakthrough, who struggled to define himself apart from his dad clarence williams iii, a failed professional pianist and wifebeating drunk, patti is simultaneously inspired and embarrassed by barb, a onetime rock singer who was on the verge of a commercial stardom when she got pregnant with patti. Shes obsessed with becoming the next big name in rap, daydreaming of being brought up onto the stage by her idol oz sahr ngaujah, a legendary musician with his own record label who has sold millions of records all around the globe. Patti is as unlikely a rap star as notorious b i g and from the very starts you cant help feeling that this is no different from the. It is an emotionally complex drama about an overweight white girl who aspires to be a rapper. In suburban new jersey, patti danielle macdonald is a chunky white girl who dreams of being a rapper like her idol oz sahr ngaujah. She works at a sleazy local bar, where her mother is a karaoke favorite whose professional singing career stalled with pattis birth. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in new jersey where her life is falling apart, patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. The camera cuts to graffiti on the wall which has a drawing of a penis. There is a lot of hardcore profanity throughout the entire movie. With sahr ngaujah, danielle macdonald, bridget everett, mamoudou athie. It always feels a bit too much like a project cooked up in a sundance lab and precisiontooled for film festival success, and its mad libslike appropriation of underdog movie elements is the least interesting, most irritating thing about it. A homegrown new jersey story about a working class girls longshot struggle to make a mark in the rap music scene, geremy jaspers dynamic debut crackles with energy and.

Pattis danielle macdonald journey is about arts cathartic power. Pattis the polar opposite of the skinny, practically anorexic pop stars who dominate the music industry today, and that posed a special challenge in the search for the right person to portray her. However, this movie lacks the grittiness and desperation in the main character that the other films i mentioned earlier on have. Danielle macdonald stars as an unlikely rapper in a feelgood film with attitude whose characters all convince. Some of the sharpest humor in the film comes from watching white characters posture about how another white character isnt street i. The actors get it, the writing gets it, and the original rap songs penned for the film get it. The fword is used multiple times along with other swearing. She works as a bartender, but that is not enough to make ends meet with her grandmothers medical. My verse is full of curses cos im stuck in dirty jersey she raps, early in the film.