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The story of Noni Jean, a hot new award-winning artist who is primed for superstardom. But not all is what it seems,and the pressures cause Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who';s been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But can Kaz';s love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?
14 November 1968, Houston, Texas, USA
26 November 1989, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
28 June 1979, UK
31 January 1970, Middlesex Hospital, London, England, UK
22 April 1990, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
24 July 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
7 October 1971, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
16 August 1976, Washington, USA
11 June 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 October 1984, Savannah, Georgia, USA
March 21, 2017
You'll walk away from this film lighthearted and wanting to hold someone's hand.November 14, 2014
It's a movie about a rising superstar that features two of them-Mbatha-Raw and Parker, both enormously appealing, impossibly attractive performers with big futures ahead of them.November 14, 2014
"Beyond the Lights" is a faint shadow of 1992's "The Bodyguard," without the star power of Whitney Houston or Kevin Costner.January 05, 2015
In every scene here, Prince-Bythewood calmly and sensitively melts our resistance to the outlandish, outsized quality of her plot and stays true to the message she wants to deliver without ever getting pious or preachy.November 14, 2014
Director Prince-Bythewood, who made the move from television to the big-screen in 2000 with the terrific romance Love and Basketball has a way with actors.June 23, 2015
The type of mainstream, commercial romance that's increasingly rare: one that never loses sight of actual tangible pain and hope in its beautifully portrayed characters.February 28, 2015
Smart and passionate, this is one of the ultimate Hollywood fantasies: an adult romance performed by gorgeous actors with palpable onscreen chemistry.February 26, 2016
A carefully calculated romantic drama that spins out the usual manifestos about the music industry devouring pretty young singers yearning for acceptance.June 07, 2016
Every time you want to hoot and dismiss this movie, the next moment it grabs you. Guilty pleasure. Good storytelling. Lurve. Gugu Mbatha-Raw. A star is born.January 08, 2015
Something unoriginal isn't always pointless.December 01, 2014
Has the elements of a classic backstage story, but they don't quite crystallize into an integral drama.November 14, 2014
Unfortunately for a film about the importance of keeping it real, the drama here is largely formulaic, and the finish line crosses into the realm of artistic fantasy.