I got this from the Curvy Clippings News Service, and found it interesting.
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=259
Breaking stereotypes about body image is not quite enough to make
Soros Nnegest Likké's premier film a success.
Instant success, as the saying goes, normally takes 10 years. It took
Soros Nnegest Likké, the writer and director of Phat Girlz, 15 years
to direct her first movie. It is a comedy about Jasmine Biltmore
(stand up comedian Mo'Nique), a plus size woman's journey toward
reaching her dreams. Much like Likké, Jasmine has to plod through the
valley of discouragement before climbing the peak of success. In the
movie it was Jasmine attaining the love of a man and having her own
fashion line; in real life it was Phat Girlz's opening night for
Likké.
The movie opens with Jasmine and her friend Stacey stuck in a
department store with no dates. They spend days and nights sulking
over ice cream and burgers, blaming all bad things on their expanding
waistlines. However, when Jasmine wins a trip to a spa in Arizona,
they learn that size does not matter. As Likké told the San Francisco
Chronicle, "The bottom line is, love yourself -- fat, skinny, short,
tall, whatever. Love yourself."
If Jasmine did not have such low self-esteem, she would have accepted
the love of debonair Nigerian doctor Tunde's (played by Jimmy Jean-
Louis). Instead she sabotages the relationship by going home and
gorging herself on junk food. Only when she finally gives up the
notion that she must be thin to be happy does she rise to the top in
love and fashion.
Does Likké's Phat Girlz rise to the occasion? The movie did as
expected for a first time movie, garnering US$3.1 million at the
weekend box office, enough to cover costs, although now it has
slumped in the charts. The movie offers a few laughs and does cross
over to all demographics with the appeal to the overweight or the
less-than-perfect, which includes most os us.
Instant success, as the saying goes, normally takes 10 years. It took
Soros Nnegest Likké, the writer and director of Phat Girlz, 15 years
to direct her first movie. It is a comedy about Jasmine Biltmore
(stand up comedian Mo'Nique), a plus size woman's journey toward
reaching her dreams. Much like Likké, Jasmine has to plod through the
valley of discouragement before climbing the peak of success. In the
movie it was Jasmine attaining the love of a man and having her own
fashion line; in real life it was Phat Girlz's opening night for
Likké.
The movie opens with Jasmine and her friend Stacey stuck in a
department store with no dates. They spend days and nights sulking
over ice cream and burgers, blaming all bad things on their expanding
waistlines. However, when Jasmine wins a trip to a spa in Arizona,
they learn that size does not matter. As Likké told the San Francisco
Chronicle, "The bottom line is, love yourself -- fat, skinny, short,
tall, whatever. Love yourself."
If Jasmine did not have such low self-esteem, she would have accepted
the love of debonair Nigerian doctor Tunde's (played by Jimmy Jean-
Louis). Instead she sabotages the relationship by going home and
gorging herself on junk food. Only when she finally gives up the
notion that she must be thin to be happy does she rise to the top in
love and fashion.
Does Likké's Phat Girlz rise to the occasion? The movie did as
expected for a first time movie, garnering US$3.1 million at the
weekend box office, enough to cover costs, although now it has
slumped in the charts. The movie offers a few laughs and does cross
over to all demographics with the appeal to the overweight or the
less-than-perfect, which includes most os us.
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=259
Breaking stereotypes about body image is not quite enough to make
Soros Nnegest Likké's premier film a success.
Instant success, as the saying goes, normally takes 10 years. It took
Soros Nnegest Likké, the writer and director of Phat Girlz, 15 years
to direct her first movie. It is a comedy about Jasmine Biltmore
(stand up comedian Mo'Nique), a plus size woman's journey toward
reaching her dreams. Much like Likké, Jasmine has to plod through the
valley of discouragement before climbing the peak of success. In the
movie it was Jasmine attaining the love of a man and having her own
fashion line; in real life it was Phat Girlz's opening night for
Likké.
The movie opens with Jasmine and her friend Stacey stuck in a
department store with no dates. They spend days and nights sulking
over ice cream and burgers, blaming all bad things on their expanding
waistlines. However, when Jasmine wins a trip to a spa in Arizona,
they learn that size does not matter. As Likké told the San Francisco
Chronicle, "The bottom line is, love yourself -- fat, skinny, short,
tall, whatever. Love yourself."
If Jasmine did not have such low self-esteem, she would have accepted
the love of debonair Nigerian doctor Tunde's (played by Jimmy Jean-
Louis). Instead she sabotages the relationship by going home and
gorging herself on junk food. Only when she finally gives up the
notion that she must be thin to be happy does she rise to the top in
love and fashion.
Does Likké's Phat Girlz rise to the occasion? The movie did as
expected for a first time movie, garnering US$3.1 million at the
weekend box office, enough to cover costs, although now it has
slumped in the charts. The movie offers a few laughs and does cross
over to all demographics with the appeal to the overweight or the
less-than-perfect, which includes most os us.
Instant success, as the saying goes, normally takes 10 years. It took
Soros Nnegest Likké, the writer and director of Phat Girlz, 15 years
to direct her first movie. It is a comedy about Jasmine Biltmore
(stand up comedian Mo'Nique), a plus size woman's journey toward
reaching her dreams. Much like Likké, Jasmine has to plod through the
valley of discouragement before climbing the peak of success. In the
movie it was Jasmine attaining the love of a man and having her own
fashion line; in real life it was Phat Girlz's opening night for
Likké.
The movie opens with Jasmine and her friend Stacey stuck in a
department store with no dates. They spend days and nights sulking
over ice cream and burgers, blaming all bad things on their expanding
waistlines. However, when Jasmine wins a trip to a spa in Arizona,
they learn that size does not matter. As Likké told the San Francisco
Chronicle, "The bottom line is, love yourself -- fat, skinny, short,
tall, whatever. Love yourself."
If Jasmine did not have such low self-esteem, she would have accepted
the love of debonair Nigerian doctor Tunde's (played by Jimmy Jean-
Louis). Instead she sabotages the relationship by going home and
gorging herself on junk food. Only when she finally gives up the
notion that she must be thin to be happy does she rise to the top in
love and fashion.
Does Likké's Phat Girlz rise to the occasion? The movie did as
expected for a first time movie, garnering US$3.1 million at the
weekend box office, enough to cover costs, although now it has
slumped in the charts. The movie offers a few laughs and does cross
over to all demographics with the appeal to the overweight or the
less-than-perfect, which includes most os us.
