A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Co-writer/Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Jennifer Hudson.
Maija Garcia ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4594834/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
17 songs in the Soundtracks, some performed by the cast onscreen.
This tagged with the Musical genre. It has musical numbers, but I'd have to go back and count them to see if I'd fight for the label. I'm glad to have it on the list.
I like this film. It has a great blend of tough, funny, tragic, optimistic and preachy as h*ll. SL ends it with "Wake Up" again, and he's right.
A lot of the spoken dialog rhymes.
Rated 5.7 (7,944)
Amazon Studios & more, dir. Lee; 8
