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- 2018
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Summary Whitney Houston broke more music industry records than any other female singer in history. With over 200 million album sales worldwide, she was the only artist to chart seven consecutive U.S. No. 1 singles. She also starred in several blockbuster movies before her brilliant career gave way to erratic behavior, scandals and death at age 4...
Directed By: Kevin Macdonald
Written By: Kevin Macdonald
- 2018
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h
- 2018
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h
Whitney
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Summary Whitney Houston broke more music industry records than any other female singer in history. With over 200 million album sales worldwide, she was the only artist to chart seven consecutive U.S. No. 1 singles. She also starred in several blockbuster movies before her brilliant career gave way to erratic behavior, scandals and death at age 4...
Directed By: Kevin Macdonald
Written By: Kevin Macdonald
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
75
86% Positive
32 Reviews
32 Reviews
14% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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If you liked Whitney Houston before, you’ll like her even more after seeing this. You’ll also admire her and feel pity for her and feel frustrated by her.
It’s hard to watch young Whitney, knowing what lies ahead, but it seems important to do as the film does: take a moment, and just listen to her sing.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
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22 Ratings
14% Mixed
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Who will respect the opinion of some troll( 15-16-years old for sure) who call himself duddy5698? Hey, duddy go and hide yourself somewhere!Every normal person( i repeat normal) will like and support Whitney because at her prime she had one of the greatest female voices of all time!
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Great movie which shows her life, she was like all of us,nobody is perfect and anyone has his own issues! And the user duddy5698 is just a 14-15-years old not very intelligent ignorant and racist who knows absolutely nothing about music and who don't understand the fact that he is not perfect too!And the ones who said that she screamed is tone deaf!!!
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A sobering, haunting but completely fresh look at Whitney’s life and death that will reframe everything you think you know about the singer.
By the time Whitney reaches the point it inevitably must, Macdonald’s film stands as an archive of how preventable Houston’s passing truly was.
A family affair, a family failure. The life of Whitney Houston seems like a cage match between competing egotists who call one another relatives. No doubt a certain pall hangs over the film, perhaps inevitable with the subject, and aided by the cathartic candor of most interviewees.
For those who only remember Houston as the train-wreck spectacle she devolved into during her latter years, this documentary will do a good job of providing the basic outline of her life.
There are watchable moments, undoubtedly, and it is extraordinary to watch Houston’s sensational performance at the 1991 Super Bowl, singing The Star Spangled Banner with such passion: perhaps the greatest moment of her professional life. Her enigma remains unsolved.
Informative, emotive and at times shockingly revelatory documentary about the very talented, but ultimately tragic singer. This superior doc is so much more than a talking heads expose bringing into focus the times and the people surrounding the star. Director Kevin Macdonald has done well to ensure that the film is logically edited to maximise impact on Whitney's rise and fall leaving us with at least one sure thing for which she will always be remembered: That rich and beautiful voice.
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It looks like 2018 is a documentary summer with one about Supreme court Justice Ginsberg, another about children’s host Fred Rogers, this past week one telling the story of Whitney Houston and this coming Friday the story of triplets separated at birth that discover each other 19 years later.
I, generally, don’t go to see a documentary film in the theatre but due to ‘improvements’ being made to my apartment I’ve had to get out a few hours and what better way, whether hot and humid or raining, than going to a a/c movie theatre!?!
I admired Whitney Houston’s voice, though at times I felt she was screaming too much and after hearing “I Will Always Love You” for the 4th million time (you couldn’t escape it!) I sort of tuned her out.
In “Whitney” we hear from/about her brothers, mother, father, relatives plus several from the music and movie industry as the documentary director Kevin Macdonald sort of tilts the story to get the audience to feel sorry for this woman who had everything and lost it all, an old entertainment story. On one side it is said, and shown, to have had an idyllic childhood while on the other hand
At one point Houston signed a $100 million contract only a few years later having to make a movie because she was broke. How much her marriage to Bobby Brown was related to her drugs problems, though it seems she started to go grass and cocaine at 16, is sort of dismissed because he was jealous of her and though not proven it seems one of her aunts sexually abused her when she was a child plus she had a long affair with her best friend and assistant Robyn Crawford.
Whitney Houston is seen hitting bottom and she does just as we see her at the height of her success and she shows what made her a major talent.
“Whitney” is a must see for her true fans and a wait until it is on television for others.
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If you are a Whitney Houston fan, this biographical film is a must-see. It tells the story of her life and family in great detail and covers “controversial” issues, including a lesbian friend and the possibility she was abused as a child. It also makes some attempt to show when she lived in America, but not how she might have been affected by what was going on in the country at the time. There is no narration and very little musical context, but I have to praise the makers of the film for their diligence in assembling her story in such detail. I knew very little about WH before seeing this film, so I was not bored, but I also missed getting any real insight into the artist or the person.
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Whitney Houston had a record-breaking career and a heart-breaking life. This documentary is the second one to be produced about her (the first was not authorized by the family). As a result, this one has interviews with her parents and brothers, as well as musicians and others in her sphere. It also shares a few secrets from her past. As a film, it's pretty straightforward in approach: interviews interspersed with lots of photos, performance footage and home videos. The pace starts to drag as the story becomes more gloomy. Still, anyone who's curious about Houston will appreciate it's thorough approach to her story.
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Production Company
Lisa Erspamer Entertainment,
Lightbox,
Altitude Film Entertainment
Release Date Jul 6, 2018
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Genres
Tagline All the music. All the stories. All the answers.
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
