DREAM A WHOLE LOT LOUDER.
When a church-choir director in a small Georgia town suddenly dies, his wife (Dolly Parton) is bypassed for the position and the new choir leader (Queen Latifah) becomes a rival. Director Todd Graff has plenty of musical experience and if there is any reason to watch this movie it’s for the music ā and the chance of seeing Parton in her first starring role in many years, even sharing a very tender scene (and song) with Kris Kristofferson. This sentimental drama wants to inspire, but infuriates because of its blandness, predictability and cloying sentiment.
2012-U.S. 118 min. Color.Ā Written and directed byĀ Todd Graff.Ā Cast:Ā Queen Latifah (Vi Rose Hill), Dolly Parton (G.G. Sparrow), Keke Palmer (Olivia Hill), Jeremy Jordan, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney B. Vance.