Whitney

Whitney

  • Director: Kevin Macdonald
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 5, 2018
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Vitni
  • "Whitney" is a music documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald , co-starred by Whitney Houston , Bobby Brown , Clive Davis and Cissy Houston. The film was released in the United States on July 6, 2018.
    The film includes fragments of Whitney Houston's past performances, private life documentaries, interviews with relatives and friends, etc., reviewing Whitney's singing career and some controversial topics   .

    Details

    • Release date July 5, 2018
    • Filming locations New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies Lisa Erspamer Entertainment, Lightbox, Altitude Film Entertainment

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $3,026,351

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $1,265,572

    Gross worldwide

    $4,605,123

    Movie reviews

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    • By Germaine 2022-11-30 06:51:37

      "Whitney"-the rise and fall of the American dream in an image

      Biographical documentaries, especially female biographical documentaries, have always been the focus of attention in the documentary world. Different from the many female biographical documentaries currently on the market, some women who are more willing to selectively display and shape the almost flat symbolic image from the perspective of the documentary filmmaker, have won the Oscar for "A Day in September" The narration of the documentary honorary director Kevin MacDonald, the...

    • By German 2022-05-14 21:07:10

      It's also the memory of my beautiful youth

      I just watched it yesterday, and I was really embarrassed. . . Such a great singer has a glorious but short life. Back in the media, I have also seen photos showing her weight loss after taking drugs, but in the documentary for the first time I saw her standing behind Bobby Brown and yawning, I was shocked. There are a lot of precious family videos in the film, even including her mother saying that Janet Jackson is a bitch, and she herself thinks that Paula Abdul sings out of tune. In the...

    • By Retha 2022-05-14 20:28:25

      The most classic female voice, none

      It may be that she has not been exposed to more English female singing voices, or it seems that her ears are too picky. Since she was exposed to Whitney's voice, she felt that no one voice could surpass her.

      I will always love you and run to you when I was a bodyguard when I was in college, and when you believe when I was a prince in Egypt (Mariah Carey’s voice is also very good, but I feel really lacking in confidence in front of Whitney) , One song after another is constantly...

    • By Viviane 2022-05-14 18:06:25

      Saving all my love for you My Nippy

      Interviewer: Do you think Whitney know who she is?

      Whitney's Friend: No...no

      Whitney, or Nippy? Nippy is innocent and innocent. Her marriage with Bobby Brown made herself sink into drugs, but she was the girl whispering the star lying in her mother's arms and scolding Janet Jackson as the little girl of Bitch. She was the much-anticipated Whitney and After the break of her beloved Rubyn, the cash machine became her father and brother. After watching Whitney, she recalled another...

    • By Faustino 2022-05-14 16:52:16

      Beautiful Sing Girl, happened to be BLACK

      Whitney Houston is a singer and movie star whom I liked since junior high school. I got to know her from the CCTV6 movie channel's best film: "Bodyguard".

      Her name is often wrong, Whitney, it is easy to write it accidentally, Whiteny; the name of the hero is also, Kevin Costner. Since the movie was too touched and unforgettable for a long time, the little sisters in the class were very helpful. When the movie was replayed every other week, they waited till the end of the film to help...

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    • By Candelario 2023-09-30 17:43:04

      And I will always love you, even though I have nothing, but I still wanna run to you, cause your love is my love, and I save all my love for...

    • By Mckenna 2023-09-23 08:48:08

      It can only be said that Whitney has such a legendary and legendary life, and the piecemeal documentary has to be...

    • By Jalyn 2023-09-20 03:08:48

      People are all running away from their demons. After reading the intuition, whitney has basically never grown up, even if she is married and has a daughter, she is thin and aging, which is somewhat similar to MJ. This has her own reasons, as well as environmental factors. No matter how talented and famous a person is, they can't stand against the world. Rare circumstances will only lead to greater suffering and less lessons to learn from. Her daughter is an even more tragic example. It has been...

    • By Kamryn 2023-09-18 16:04:44

      I watched it on the plane of Sanfan, although I almost didn't watch it at the end, but I realized that she is more famous than I once thought, from...

    • By Jacinthe 2023-09-16 11:55:26

      Every short-lived DIVA has a dad who pits him to...

    Movie plot

    The film focuses on Whitney's growth, family and marriage. Whitney Houston, from a family of singers, has a talented singing voice. Her mother Sisi Houston has strictly trained her to sing since she was a child. In 1983, Whitney stunned the audience for the first time in public, and since then opened the prelude to a legendary life. But Whitney, who is thriving in her career, is facing many difficulties in life: marriage to the "bad...
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    Background creation

    In 2016, the Scottish director Kevin Macdonald , who won the Academy Award, officially started preparing for Whitney Houston 's documentary. This was the first documentary officially authorized since the death of Whitney Houston in 2012. Kevin Macdonald said in an interview that he plans to use panoramic images to show Whitney's never-disclosed acting career—from her singing in the church choir when she was young, to the age of 48 when...
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    Evaluation action

    After knowing what will happen later, it is actually difficult to watch the young Whitney Houston like this, but the audience can do one very important thing during the movie: seize a moment and listen carefully to her singing (A Seattle Times review)  .
    Compared with previous documentaries, "Whitney" directed by Kevin Macdonald explores the singer's own inner struggles more deeply, and reduces the description of her amazing talent,...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Whitney Houston: There were times when I would look up to God and I'd go, "Why is this happening to me?" And then these dreams... I'd have these dreams about being on a bridge and the bridge going back and forth and swaying. There's a big storm coming... I'm always running from this giant. I'm always running from this big man. I know I can make it. I know I can make it. I know I can make it. My mother always says, "Oh, you know, that's nothin' but the devil; he's just trying to get you. He just wants your soul." And in a sense it's true. There's been several times the devil has tried to get me. But he never gets me. And it's funny, when I wake up I'm always exhausted, from running.

    • Gary Houston: We had a good, tight-knit family, but there were always a lot of secrets in our lives. When you don't resolve things, when you don't deal with things, they never go away. They never go away.