Roxanne Roxanne

(Netflix) Release Date: March 23, 2018 Director: Michael Larnell Writer: Michael Larnell Cast: Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Adam Horovitz, Jermaine Crawford, Chanté Adams, Tonye Patano, Mitchell Edwards, Elvis Nolasco, Kevin Phillips, Cindy Cheung, Heather Simms, Curtiss Cook, Jermel Howard, Taliyah Whitaker, Eden Duncan-Smith Plot: In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC. Genre: Drama IMDb: tt5796838