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A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.
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- 9 wins & 34 nominations
Keyon Ivory
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- (as Keyon Ivory 'DJ K9')
Johnny Bryant
- Preacher
- (as Rev. Johnny Bryant)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Miss Juneteenth is a real contest in Texas. Writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples attended pageants while growing up in Fort Worth.
- GoofsTurquoise said she was Miss Juneteenth 2004 when she took her seat at the 2019 pageant. Kai was 15, which would mean Turquoise gave birth just before the pageant she won.
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Written by KING NUSE
Performed by KING NUSE
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"Miss Juneteenth" has its heart in the right place, and I want nothing more than to be able to unequivocally recommend a movie directed by a black woman about the black experience in America. But the film can't shed an amateurish quality that prevents it from hitting its marks.
I fault the screenplay mostly, which is also the work of the film's director, Channing Godfrey Peoples. It spends a good 90% of its time depicting the life of a struggling mostly single mother (the father is in the picture, but not reliably) and her teenage daughter as a joyless grind, only to switch gears in the movie's last ten minutes to land on a happy ending in which all dramatic conflicts are resolved and everything's tied up with a nifty bow. The ending doesn't feel earned, since the screenplay doesn't adequately set it up, and the whole thing hits the viewer as being disingenuous. I appreciated the film's resistance to wallowing in a misery porn aesthetic, but I think it could have landed somewhere between despair and the Hallmark movie "everyone gets what she wants" ending that it gives us.
As a consolation for the film's weak script, it features a lovely performance by Nicole Beharie as the mom whose determination to give her daughter what she missed out on blinds her to what her daughter actually wants.
Grade: B
I fault the screenplay mostly, which is also the work of the film's director, Channing Godfrey Peoples. It spends a good 90% of its time depicting the life of a struggling mostly single mother (the father is in the picture, but not reliably) and her teenage daughter as a joyless grind, only to switch gears in the movie's last ten minutes to land on a happy ending in which all dramatic conflicts are resolved and everything's tied up with a nifty bow. The ending doesn't feel earned, since the screenplay doesn't adequately set it up, and the whole thing hits the viewer as being disingenuous. I appreciated the film's resistance to wallowing in a misery porn aesthetic, but I think it could have landed somewhere between despair and the Hallmark movie "everyone gets what she wants" ending that it gives us.
As a consolation for the film's weak script, it features a lovely performance by Nicole Beharie as the mom whose determination to give her daughter what she missed out on blinds her to what her daughter actually wants.
Grade: B
- evanston_dad
- Mar 11, 2021
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $92,349
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,946
- Jun 21, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $111,428
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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