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Dancehall Queen | |
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Directed by |
Don Letts Rick Elgood |
Written by | Suzanne Fenn Ed Wallace Don Letts |
Produced by |
Carl Bradshaw Carolyn Pfeiffer Chris Blackwell |
Starring |
Audrey Reid Paul Campbell Beenie Man Cherine Anderson |
Cinematography | Louis Mulvey |
Edited by | Suzanne Fenn |
Music by | Wally Badarou |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Languages | English, Jamaican Patois |
Dancehall Queen is a 1997 indie Jamaican film written by Suzanne Fenn, Ed Wallace and Don Letts, starring Audrey Reid, who plays Marcia, a street vendor struggling to raise a bad-tempered daughter, Tanya ( Cherine Anderson). Directed by Don Letts and Rick Elgood.
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 hoodlum who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems (Larry, Priest, and without 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. [1]