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Five young Black actresses are seen over a six-month period in their daily lives as they face obscurity, competition, racial stereotypes, and financial pressure as they pursue their dreams in Hollywood.
While purportedly about African-American women in Hollywood, this film also serves as a primer for what just about any actor goes through trying to make it in Hollywood, regardless of race, gender or age. It doesn't aim to be deeply profound, just show real life. And it's funny and entertaining in doing it. I also appreciated the fact that the women are all different--two dramatic actresses, one personality, one comic voice over specialist, and one a singer. This in contrast to what black women sometimes come up against, stereotyped in casting and considered to all have the "black experience."
This is one of those documentaries where its hard to see where the driving force behind making it came from. Some interesting themes are brought up involving race in Hollywood and the pressures of maintaining a 'perfect' appearance but these are glossed over in favour of a pretty aimless sequence of soundbites. Maybe the director thought he'd find something more profound in the words of his subjects but, aside from some reasonably involving stuff from Tangi Miller (who seems to be the only one of the actresses who has found any significant success since the making of this documentary) there isn't a lot to get interested in. In fact, at times the director seems to resort to almost mocking the aspiring actresses and their aspirations, which leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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What any actor goes through trying to make it.
mostly uninvolving documentary