Movie · Drama · Musical

In this contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ acclaimed play, single mother Naima (Jennifer Hudson) sends her teenage son Langston (Jacob Latimore) to New York to live with his estranged grandparents, Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett). Once there, Langston embarks on a journey of self-discovery in this inspiring story of faith, family and forgiveness.

2013 · 1h 33m
Director Kasi Lemmons

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In this contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ acclaimed play, single mother Naima (Jennifer Hudson) sends her teenage son Langston (Jacob Latimore) to New York to live with his estranged grandparents, Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett). Once there, Langston embarks on a journey of self-discovery in this inspiring story of faith, family and forgiveness.

COMMON SENSE

Christmas musical is feel-good story of faith, forgiveness.

TOMATOMETER
Average 5.7
Reviews 87
Fresh 44
Rotten 43

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
2013
Run Time
1 hr 33 min
Rated
PG
Content Advisories
Language, Violence
Region of Origin
United States
© 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (United States) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United States) , 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 (Brazil) , Romanian , Russian , Serbian (Latin) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.