{"id":160,"date":"2014-06-18T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:59:51","slug":"black-nativity-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Black Nativity-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Nativity-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Kasi Lemmons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #46<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70279001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1336\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70279001-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70279001\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70279001-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70279001.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 18, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black Nativity (2013) is a family holiday movie about a poor Baltimore teen sent to live with his affluent, estranged grandparents (Forest Whitaker and Angela Basset) in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Hudson plays the teen&#8217;s financially struggling mother.<\/p>\n<p>The estrangement stems from a silly misunderstanding years ago when Hudson&#8217;s character was pregnant with her now teenage son.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the performances of Whitaker, Bassett, and Hudson, and the sprinkling of songs performed by the leads was nice, but the story was incredibly sappy and predictable and wrapped up in a nice bow at the end of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Scene one screams predictable and safe.<\/p>\n<p>I did not sense any real conflict or grit throughout the movie and it felt like watching a Hallmark-made-for-television movie- not a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Black Nativity (2013) is a nice family story, but a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Skip unless you enjoy the watered-down family fare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Nativity-2013 Director Kasi Lemmons Starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker Scott&#8217;s Review #46 Reviewed June 18, 2014 Grade: C- Black Nativity (2013) is a family holiday movie about a poor Baltimore teen sent to live with his affluent, estranged grandparents (Forest Whitaker and Angela Basset) in Harlem. Jennifer Hudson plays the teen&#8217;s financially struggling mother. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Nativity-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,192,47,188],"tags":[1669,193,2624,2510,4240,4241,250,189,4242],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-dramas","category-musicals","category-musicdramas","tag-angela-bassett","tag-dramas-2","tag-forest-whitaker","tag-jennifer-hudson","tag-kasi-lemmons","tag-mary-j-blige","tag-musicals","tag-music-dramas","tag-nas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}