The good intentions of writer-director-star Dale Resteghini's painfully earnest drama don't help it rise above its making-it-in-the-big-city formula or its stacked deck of race-card cliches. African American singer Debbie Lewis (Niki Richards) asks her Italian boyfriend, Tony Mespelli (Resteghini), to leave Boston and come to New York with her, even though she doesn't have a contract with the big city music-business contacts who've promised her a deal. The move comes just in time for Tony, whose bigoted father kicks him out after learning that he's involved in an interracial romance. The couple arrives in Manhattan to find that Debbie's deal has evaporated and she en...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins