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R Released May 10, 2002 1h 36m Drama Romance List
28% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 60% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings
Summer G (Richard T. Jones), an aspiring rapper, finds himself enamored with a young woman named Sky Hightower (Chenoa Maxwell), an ambitious social climber who is wary of Summer's low-class status. Although she rejects him for Chip (Blair Underwood), who works in the lucrative world of finance, that only pushes Summer to work even harder to make himself a wealthy and important man -- someone Sky will love. However, he encounters problems from both the old money guard and from Sky herself. Read More Read Less
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Race and class struggles come to the Hamptons in this reworking of The Great Gatsby with a hip-hop flavor. Unfortunately, too many subplots and a lack of believable characters spoil an otherwise novel concept.

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: C+ Feb 18, 2012 Full Review Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly Another strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average. Rated: C Nov 2, 2005 Full Review Peter L'Official Village Voice No green light but the one mistakenly given to start production. Nov 1, 2005 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com "G" is a vacuous movie set in attractive locations. Rated: D+ Apr 17, 2009 Full Review Kam Williams AALBC.com The F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby, adapted as a modern-day morality play in blackface. This fairly-faithful version explores the same themes as its source material, only with a hip-hop spin. Rated: 3.5/4 Apr 4, 2007 Full Review Kam Williams BlackNews.com An intricate update of The Great Gatsby exploring such themes as greed, ambition, passion, infidelity and more greed, all against the elegant backdrop of Long Island's leisure class. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 22, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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michael r The first half hour of over the top stereotypes did it for me…this movie is just terrible. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review c v So this is the literary classic that I never got to finish in high school come to the big screen. Kudos for the hip-hop twist, but this film's inspirations inclusion in my high school curriculum speaks volumes about the U.S. education system. "G" is a cautionary tale of a rumor mill spun out of control, yet handles the whole thing like Jerry Springer with guns being allowed on the set. I credit the cast for taking this seriously, but this film is shot in such an amateurish light that it just cant save it's tabloid cover plot to make it worth the cover of an actual tabloid. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Loosely based on The Great Gatsby and fairly good. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Richard T jones and Blair Underwood are so hott! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Given that this was supposed to be based on a hip hop lifestyle in the Hamptons, it was a little lacking in bling. The leads have all done better work on other projects. A poor reworking of the Great Gatsby. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 3+ star average? Who is watching this??? Blair Underwood, I am embarrassed for you. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Summer G (Richard T. Jones), an aspiring rapper, finds himself enamored with a young woman named Sky Hightower (Chenoa Maxwell), an ambitious social climber who is wary of Summer's low-class status. Although she rejects him for Chip (Blair Underwood), who works in the lucrative world of finance, that only pushes Summer to work even harder to make himself a wealthy and important man -- someone Sky will love. However, he encounters problems from both the old money guard and from Sky herself.
Director
Christopher Scott Cherot
Producer
Judd Landon, Andrew Lauren
Screenwriter
Christopher Scott Cherot, Charles E. Drew Jr.
Distributor
Slowhand Cinema Releasing
Production Co
Andrew Lauren Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 10, 2002, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Oct 28, 2005
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.0M
Runtime
1h 36m
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