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Jun 6 09 4:18 PM

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I went to see it here on Long Island last night and I gotta say Mariah blew me and my friends away with her acting skills. It's a beautiful movie but it kinda drags though that because the whole time your thinking why isn't this movie more about Mariahs Chracter. Trust me I'm not jsut saying that because I love MC, my firends said the same thing and they aren't big fan's and alot of reviews have said that aswell.

I think it's amazing and very daring of Mariah to do movies like this and "Wisegirls" with an accent because even some the biggest actors don't dare go to far away from who they really are. So if you haven't seen the movie look up the theaters it's playing in and if u can manage to get to one of them I'm sure you will think it was worth the Travel.

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Jun 6 09 5:32 PM

Thank you for sharing! I have been waiting to hear from folks who have already seen Tennessee! I can't wait til it goes to DVD or hopefully it will come to a theater near me!

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Jun 6 09 6:13 PM

Good to hear since I didn't like her acting from the clips I saw.. She seemed great in the Precious clips though. I am gonna watch em both..

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Jun 6 09 9:28 PM

Overall the movie has got very bad reviews ... an overall rating of 38 on Metacritic, but most reviews do mention that Mariah is surprisingly good in it and there is no bad review of her acting that I have come across yet .. accept for one that says that her accent just disappears half way through the movie.

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Jun 7 09 7:09 AM

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42 on metacritic.
50+ would sound a lot better
Excellent it went up since yesterday. Because anything under 40 is considered a turkey.

If it manages one or two more OK reviews it might get up to around 45 or 46. But those New York Times and New York Post reviews really hurt its overall score.

Atleast 42 is better than Beyonce's Obsessed 25!

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Jun 7 09 12:57 PM

I saw it Friday night, and I was genuinely surprised with the movie. I'll admit it can be boring at times, because it seems like they drag it on a lil too much. But as far a Mariah goes, she truly makes the movie. Its so good to see how far she has come since Glitter, it just seemed like Mariah's charectar was more interesting and u wanted to know more about her. Lol I just did not like seeing mariah get pushed around, how dare they touch her like that lol. Now I'm ready for Precious, I just started reading the book and its gonna be a really good movie!
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Jun 7 09 11:16 PM

EdWood wrote:
frengers wrote:
42 on metacritic.
50+ would sound a lot better
Excellent it went up since yesterday. Because anything under 40 is considered a turkey.

If it manages one or two more OK reviews it might get up to around 45 or 46. But those New York Times and New York Post reviews really hurt its overall score.

Atleast 42 is better than Beyonce's Obsessed 25!

i totally dun get how obsessed is such a huge hit!
i wish ali larter will kill beyonce in e movie!
i cannot stand her!

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Jun 8 09 6:42 AM

it totally wont be released in Australia

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Jun 9 09 12:21 PM

Just read the reviews posted on MDJ. How cool is it that most of them point to Mariah as a highlight of the movie!! She must be feeling really validated!


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Jun 9 09 2:00 PM

I'm going to see it again tonight @ Sunshine Cinema! I saw it last year @ Tribeca... but it was that good!!!


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Jun 9 09 2:52 PM

the movie was surprising...ill see it again in a matinee...but i really enjoyed. the trailer doesnt tell the story at all. its much more than that. mariah doesnt make the movie her part isnt as in your face and thats what makes it work. i think she has gotten better. i cried...lol...and laughed out loud. and i wanna see it again...so thats gotta tell you something. it was a "sweet" movie. peck made the movie in my opinion.


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Jun 10 09 11:48 AM

She's getting some nice reviews, although the reviews for the movie are kinda mediocre.

Entertainment Weekly
Mariah Carey is perfectly fine playing a waitress who dreams of becoming, yes, a singer - even if the superstar's presence in such a small venture seems jarring.


Philadelphia City Paper
Mariah Carey isn't the star of Aaron Woodley's film. In fact, she's only on screen for maybe a third of its running time, and a few minutes of that is spent singing, a sentimental number that rather reductively defines her character, Krystal, a diner waitress and aspiring artist seeking escape from her abusive state trooper husband (Lance Reddick). Even up against such odds, Carey remains the movie's most compelling figure, her performance nuanced and generous… Amid the banality, however heartfelt, Carey is a welcome surprise.


IFC Entertainment
It's unlikely that Mariah Carey will be weighed down with trophies for her role in the soggy redemption movie "Tennessee," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, but her solid acting, as a diner waitress in Texas who flees an abusive cop-husband and hits the road with two brothers, is definitely part of the Rehabilitation of Mimi. "The whole 'Glitter' experience was very, very hard to go through," Carey says in "Tennessee"'s press notes, referring to her critically drubbed, semi-autobiographical 2001 movie; nothing spurs a diva on more than proving people wrong. MC's Lone Star twang is consistent, and when she disappears from the action, staying behind in Nashville while the brothers board a Knoxville-bound Greyhound, you wish she'd come back, with her cornrows, kerchiefs and acoustic guitar, to save us from the siblings working out their still-simmering family trauma. Perhaps all Carey needed to regain onscreen confidence was the unwavering support of "Tennessee" producer Lee Daniels; judging from the amazing performance the singer gives in the upcoming "Precious," which Daniels directed, it's clear he's her charm.


Philadelphia Daily News
The little indie "Tennessee" squeezes super-celeb diva Mariah Carey into the humble role of Texas truck stop waitress.
It's a fairly meaty role (pardon the pun - she added weight for the part) and Carey does some surprisingly subtle work. She doesn't pick up a guitar and croon until the end of the movie, and even then, it's not the same gal you saw in "Glitter."


News Blaze
Mariah Carey is more than just the big star in this small story. She's the warm, charismatic, and deliciously down home presence that spontaneously fills the screen with charm to spare, in this comparatively weak and maudlin story. Though it's unfortunate and rather lopsided, that the details of her own character lack the attention and depth lavished upon the male protagonists.


Hollywood.Com
Tennessee's real revelation is Mariah Carey as Krystal, a Texas waitress stuck in a dead-end marriage to a not-so-kind police officer. Seeing a way out, she joins up with the brothers and accompanies them as far as Nashville, where her dreams of a music career get an unexpected boost. Carey is completely authentic and memorable, particularly in a scene where she gets to sing in an open mic contest. This mega-pop star can finally put the disaster of her notorious flop, 2001's Glitter, far behind her... Carey does a splendid job on an original song, "Right to Dream," in the small Nashville club where she gets a chance to sing. Key to the scene's believability is that we see her as Krystal, a small-town aspiring performer, and not superstar Mariah Carey when she's up there on stage... Like many independently-made dramas, this one will struggle to stay afloat in theaters. Hopefully, it will have a strong afterlife on DVD, where many more people will happily discover that Mariah can actually act!


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Jun 10 09 11:49 AM

Yeah it's cool that Mariah is getting so many shoutouts on an otherwise critically disliked movie.

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Jun 10 09 12:11 PM

wow....i can't wait for the DVD release
but it's an awful dvd cover to me

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