Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

2000

Action / Biography / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 198 198

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Plot summary

The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father's shadow while still maintaining her own celebrity status.


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December 22, 2020 at 05:36 PM

Top cast

James McDaniel as Nat 'King' Cole
Diahann Carroll as Maria Cole
Art Hindle as Ralph Goldman
Andrea Lewis as Natalie Cole
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Chase_Witherspoon 6 / 10

This will be, unforgettable... for the fans

Natalie Cole speaks to camera in between dramatisation of her life as the daughter of crooner Nat King Cole, with Diahann Carroll playing her strict, prim mother whose emotional distance and initial disapproval of her daughter's singing career strains their relationship. Townsend's telemovie doesn't shy from the drug use, but in order to cover around forty years (the movie takes us to around 1991) in two hours, it's necessary to cut a few corners and compress material, which keeps the pace constant.

The biopic tracks Cole's life throughout her years, including her time at college on the fringes of the Black Power movement where her singing abilities are initially discovered by the band 'Black Magic' (although Natalie reminisces that she doesn't remember a lot of the gigs she played during that time due to frequent LSD use). As her career blossoms, so too does her dependency on heroin grow more debilitating, threatening to derail her early career success until the Lord sends her pastor (and later husband) Marvin Yance to save her soul from oblivion.

From the 80s onward, Cole plays herself including the moment she apparently inadvertently discovers the potential to duet with her now long dead father in a career defining move that would ultimately prove a master stroke.

There's plenty of sampling of her hit songs (although 1989's 'Miss You Like Crazy' isn't one of them) and if you were ever curious about her life as the daughter of the great NKC, or her own Grammy award-winning career, then this superficial treatment might whet your appetite to read her autobiography ('Angel on My Shoulder') from which this preview is adapted.

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Reviewed by james_thompson-97986 9 / 10

Excellent film on the Unforgettable Natalie Cole

Love this small screen biopic of singer\actress Natalie Cole. Considering this was a television film, the production values are very good. All of the leads, Natalie Cole, Diahann Carroll and Theresa Randall do an excellent job here. Carroll embodies the "coldness" of Maria Cole. Randall made me forget I was watching an actress. And of course Natalie kills it as herself (lol). Robert Townsend does the directing duties here. And the use of Natalie's real music helps the authenticity of the film, not to mention she's telling her own story as well. Overall, just a good movie.

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