Movie · Drama · Musical

Langston (Jacob Latimore), a Baltimore teen raised by a single mother (Jennifer Hudson), travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with estranged relatives, the Rev. Cornell Cobbs (Forest Whitaker) and his wife, Aretha (Angela Bassett). However, Langston soon finds that Cobbs has strict rules, and the youth is unwilling to follow them. Instead, he sets out on a return journey to his mother and finds the value of faith, healing and family along the way.

2013 · 1h 33m
Director Kasi Lemmons

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Black Nativity

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Langston (Jacob Latimore), a Baltimore teen raised by a single mother (Jennifer Hudson), travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with estranged relatives, the Rev. Cornell Cobbs (Forest Whitaker) and his wife, Aretha (Angela Bassett). However, Langston soon finds that Cobbs has strict rules, and the youth is unwilling to follow them. Instead, he sets out on a return journey to his mother and finds the value of faith, healing and family along the way.

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Average 5.7
Reviews 87
Fresh 44
Rotten 43

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Studio
Maven Pictures
Released
2013
Run Time
1 hr 33 min
Region of Origin
United States
© 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English
Audio

English (United States) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), French (France) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), German (Germany) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

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English (CC), Arabic , Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Portugal) , Romanian , Russian , Serbian (Latin) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.