2017 · music · drama
Patti Cake$
Directed by Geremy Jasper1h 49m2017
Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
Our read: Patti Cake$ (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded music · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle music / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
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- redemptive
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