Dancehall Queen
| Dancehall Queen | |
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| Directed by |
Rick Elgood Don Letts |
| Produced by |
Carl Bradshaw Carolyn Pfeiffer Chris Blackwell |
| Written by |
Suzanne Fenn Don Letts Ed Wallace |
| Starring |
Audrey Reid Paul Campbell Beenie Man Cherine Anderson |
| Music by | Wally Badarou |
| Cinematography | Louis Mulvey |
| Edited by | Suzanne Fenn |
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Release date
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October 10, 1997 |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Language | English, Jamaican Patois |
Dancehall Queen is a 1997 independent Jamaican film starring Audrey Reid, who plays Marcia, a street vendor struggling to raise two daughters.
Marcia Green (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter Tanya (Cherine Anderson) who he then decides to pursue. Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hood who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems (Larry, Priest, and a lack of money ), Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and put both of the men against one another.
She does so and Marcia very amusingly carries out her complicated plan, with a little help from sympathetic friends.
Dancehall Queen mixed recent hits with songs created for the movie, including the title track by Beenie Man.
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