Double Platinum (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Robert Allan Ackerman

Writer (WGA):

Nina Shengold (written by)

Release Date:

16 May 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Musical | Drama

Tagline:

Love is all that matters.

Plot:

A young singer is reunited with the mother who left her when she was a child. |

Plot Keywords:

Mother Daughter Relationship

Cast

Diana Ross	...	Olivia King
Brandy Norwood	...	Kayla Harris (as Brandy)
Christine Ebersole	...	Peggy
Allen Payne	...	Ric Ortega
Brian Stokes Mitchell	...	Adam Harris
Roger Rees	...	Marc Reckler
Samantha Brown	...	Royana
Ed Lover	...	Party Ardie
Peter Francis James	...	Martin Holly
Harvey Fierstein	...	Gary Millstein
Marie Lillo
Lou Carbonneau
Adriane Lenox
John Di Benedetto		(as John DiBenedetto)
Jacinto Taras Riddick

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | Germany:o.Al. | USA:PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Anaid Film Productions Inc.

Trivia:

The closing duet "Love is All That Matters" was expected to be released as a single but has only ever appeared as a Diana Ross solo track on her album "Everyday is a New Day".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Kayla is singing the club, Olivia walks in and Kayla covers her mouth but the voice in the song keeps going. So, obviously it was pre-recorded and she was lip-syncing.

Quotes:

Kayla Harris: [crying] You son of a bitch! Olivia knew. She new exactly who you were. You found that picture, didn't you?
Ric Ortega: What are you talking about?
Kayla Harris: You *know* what I'm talking about!

Movie Connections:

References Mommie Dearest (1981)

Soundtrack:

Carry On

Double Platinum features Diana Ross, an Oscar nominee and popular singer, in a very good performance in a film that could have been better but which is not bad.

Diana Ross received good notices for her work in Lady Sings the Blues, including approving comments from leading film critic Pauline Kael, and also from noted literary writer James Baldwin, one of the leading African-American writers of the 20th century. She also received an Academy Award nomination for that performance. Her performance as a woman suffering from a severe mental illness in the television film Out of Darkness received very good reviews in 1993, two decades after Lady. Her performance as a woman who sacrifices her family to achieve success as a singing star in Double Platinum was much awaited--Ross should have made many more films than she has and so her performances are highly anticipated. In Double Platinum, she presented a sensitive but determined woman, elegant, self-confident, tormented but disciplined, a believable success, a fascinating but mysterious personality. The film was not deep--it told us nothing we did not already know about family or success, but both Ross and Brandy had good singing and acting moments, doing the kind of work people who get more attention from the media--cover stories, award nominations--would be glad to do. Just as Ross had much success in the past, she now seems to have to fight a great deal of negative assumptions, an odd karmic reversal.