R&B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography.R&B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography.R&B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography.
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Young Natalie: [Maria is wrapping up gifts as Natalie comes in] Why didn't you tell me he was sick?
Maria Cole: Because he is going to be fine. Help me find the tape, Natalie
Young Natalie: How long has he been like this? Do the doctors know what he's got? Do you know how...
Maria Cole: [pounds on the table] WHERE is the tape, Natalie?
[Natalie goes to get the tape dispenser for her and bring it to her. She sits on the couch and Maria joins her]
Maria Cole: Thank you.
The biopic tracks Cole's life throughout her years, including her time at college on the fringes of the Black Power movement where her singing abilities are initially discovered by the band 'Black Magic' (although Natalie reminisces that she doesn't remember a lot of the gigs she played during that time due to frequent LSD use). As her career blossoms, so too does her dependency on heroin grow more debilitating, threatening to derail her early career success until the Lord sends her pastor (and later husband) Marvin Yance to save her soul from oblivion.
From the 80s onward, Cole plays herself including the moment she apparently inadvertently discovers the potential to duet with her now long dead father in a career defining move that would ultimately prove a master stroke.
There's plenty of sampling of her hit songs (although 1989's 'Miss You Like Crazy' isn't one of them) and if you were ever curious about her life as the daughter of the great NKC, or her own Grammy award-winning career, then this superficial treatment might whet your appetite to read her autobiography ('Angel on My Shoulder') from which this preview is adapted.
- Chase_Witherspoon
- Feb 15, 2024
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