When Liesl Tommy’s Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” opens, Aretha is still just a kid, hoping to please her dad (the formidable minister C.L. Franklin, played here by a well-cast Forest Whitaker) with ...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- In the new movie "Respect," Jennifer Hudson takes on the monumental role of the late, great Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. "Respect" tells the story of Franklin's ...

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The new biopic “Respect” runs through two decades of Aretha Franklin’s life in 2½ hours, starting at age 9 and culminating with her back-to-the-roots gospel project “Amazing Grace.” The film, starring ...

Franklin, who died in 2018, handpicked Hudson to portray her on screen. Jennifer Hudson carries this by-the-numbers biopic of Aretha Franklin on the strength of her powerhouse voice, an abiding ...

'Respect' screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson speaks with Showbiz Cheat Sheet about writing the Aretha Franklin biopic. Scott Wilson addressed how she chose which songs to include in the movie, and even ...

The new Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” shows the Queen of Soul grappling with fame, fortune, finding the right note at the start of her career and everything that followed. But it offers little ...

“That actually happened to another jazz singer, but the incident seemed very true to their relationship,” Scott Wilson said. “So I gave it to Aretha instead.” Etta James was the singer in Washington’s ...

Aretha Franklin deserved a better movie than “Respect.” But it will do for now. For those who watched Franklin’s meteoric rise in the 1960s and ’70s, she, like so many of her peers, became famous ...

At the end of “Respect,” the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as the legendary soul singer, a slew of text describes all of the awards, tributes and plaudits the singer received ...

The 'Dreamgirls' star looks and sounds great in the role, but this overly respectful biopic steers clear of revealing the traumas that shaped the soul legend. Pandemic delays pushed “Respect” from the ...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- In the new movie "Respect," Jennifer Hudson takes on the monumental role of the late, great Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. "Respect" tells the story of Franklin's ...