2020
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 53 m

2020
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 53 m

Summary Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross), a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights, and Maggie (Dakota Johnson), her overworked personal assistant. While stuck running errands, Maggie still aspires to her childhood dream of becoming a music producer. W...

Directed By: Nisha Ganatra

Written By: Flora Greeson

2020
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 53 m

2020
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 53 m

The High Note

Name: The High Note
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Released: 2020-05-29
Duration: 1 min 53 s
Rating: 58
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Bill Pullman, Zoe Chao

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings

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Directed By: Nisha Ganatra

Written By: Flora Greeson

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Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews

47% Positive
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6% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 34 Critic Reviews

47% Positive
16 Reviews

47% Mixed
16 Reviews

6% Negative
2 Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times

May 28, 2020

It feels as if about 50% of this movie accurately captures the music business, while the other half is a fluffy confection of pure fantasy — and that’s a formula that works perfectly in an escapist film such as this.

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May 27, 2020

Playing the love interest, Kelvin Harrison Jr. does as much as he can with an underwritten character. Ice Cube, as is increasingly the case for the veteran musician-turned-actor, steals every scene in which he appears.

By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW

CNN

May 29, 2020

The High Note is a breezy way to kill a few hours. Granted, it's more an opening act than a headliner, but that simply makes its digital, on-demand residency feel like the venue where the film rightfully belongs.

By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

The Telegraph

May 28, 2020

The existential crises of music industry hotshots in Los Angeles might struggle to mark it out, to say the least, as a film for our moment. At the same time, it’s a refuge – a balmy vision of cloudless blue skies, rooftop martinis on someone else’s tab, and a few soulful jamming sessions in a recording studio no one’s using. You could disappear into Nisha Ganatra’s film for a couple of hours and easily forget where the evening went.

By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

Empire

May 26, 2020

Tracee Ellis Ross kills it as a believable soul diva in a harmonious pairing with Dakota Johnson — a shame, then, that a distracting romcom plot ends up so high in the mix.

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The New York Times

May 28, 2020

The High Note is pleasant enough but disappointingly timid and thoroughly implausible.

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The Guardian

May 29, 2020

There are some comedies that seem to have been rubbed all over with an anti-funny, anti-romance Kryptonite. This is one. It’s the cinematic equivalent of elevator muzak – a festival of glam-smug with zero chemistry between any of its three leads.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings

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36% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Production Company Focus Features, Working Title Films, Perfect World Pictures

Release Date May 29, 2020

Duration 1 h 53 m

Rating PG-13

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Tagline You've Got to Start at the Bottom Before You Take It to the Top

Website https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-high-note

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Awards

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

• 2 Nominations

ReFrame

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

People's Choice Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

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Dakota Johnson

Maggie Sherwoode

Tracee Ellis Ross

Grace Davis

Kelvin Harrison Jr.

David Cliff

Bill Pullman

Max

Zoe Chao

Katie

June Diane Raphael

Gail

Eugene Cordero

Seth

Marc Evan Jackson

Alec

Eddie Izzard

Dan Deakins

Ice Cube

Jack Robertson

Jonathan Freeman

Martin

Parvesh Cheena

Dry Cleaner

Bianca Lopez

Juice Store Employee

Neil Lane

Neil Lane

Tiffany Elle

Pharmacist

Danielle Barbosa

Piñata Woman

Edras Cerrato

Airplane Pilot

Kyndra Reevey

Grace's Back-Up Singer #1

Jazlyn Martin

Grace's Back-Up Singer #2

Daisha Graf

Grace's Back-Up Singer #3

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