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Filly Brown

2012

Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos

Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Rivera ...

4.9

36

Drama FILLY BROWN is an inspiring and gritty portrait of a young artist’s striving to find her voice and seize her dreams without compromise. Majo Tonorio, a.k.a. “Filly Brown,” is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits rhymes from the heart. With an incarcerated mother, and a father struggling to provide for his daughters, a record contract could be the ticket out for her family. But when a record producer offers Majo a crack at ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A dynamic breakout performance from Gina Rodriguez helps this rap-infused drama about a young Los Angeles Latina overcome its patchy storytelling"	NEU
United States	Robert Koehler Variety	"The resulting film is a trite piece of storytelling, with character development and plot points that feel not so much lived in as borrowed from other movies"	NEG

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