Radha Blank

Peter Y. Kim

Oswin Benjamin

Reed Birney

Imani Lewis

T.J. Atoms

Welker White

Jacob Ming-Trent

Haskiri Velazquez

Stacey Sargeant

William Oliver Watkins

Meghan O’Neill

Ashlee Brian

Antonio Ortiz

Kemba

Andre Ward

Jackie Adam

Charls Ryu

Young M.A

Sadat X

Styles P

Kit Flanagan

Peggy J. Scott

Qaasim Middleton

Corwin C. Tuggles

Mickey Factz

Mina Joo

Michael Izquierdo

Desiree Duncker

Tatiana Rosario

Shooney da Rapper

Babs

Gloria Attenburg

Ms. Fit

Nandi Pyle

Miss Undastood

Frank DiLella

Norma Bayts

Dyme-A-Duzin

Ravi Blank

Kyah Baby

Nat Lopez

Bertram The Pomeranian

Tracy Wilder

Stewart Steinburg

Andrew Glaszek

Elaine Apruzzese

Irene Blackman

Julie Chateauvert

Lynn Farrell

Doris McCarthy

La Aaron Mealy

Alex Noble

Lauren Crawford

Morgan Jones

Gregg Swiatlowski

Sarah Williams

Eric Hirsch

Anita Gibson

Chester Algernal Gordon

Katie Fleming

Trevite Willis

Lena Waithe

Rishi Rijani

Inuka Bacote

Jennifer Semler

Robert Grigsby Wilson

Rebekah Hernandez

Michael L. Walker

Sam Salvodon

Guy Routte

Jimmy Price

Valeria De Felice

Jordan Fudge

Eric Branco

Kenyon Noble

Tyler Harmon-Townsend

Anne Carson

Autumn Moran

Anton Gold

Jay Peck

Comedy

Drama

Music

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Hillman Grad Productions

New Slate Ventures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Radka is a playwright who has somewhat fallen from grace since her first success and as she approaches 40 is having a sort of mid-life crisis - what is she about? What's it all for? How can she become fulfilled? Well - indefatigable, she goes about setting herself up as a rapper and it becomes quite clear to "D" - the young base track layer that she has some skill at it. He even presuades her to do a live gig so perhaps her rather hum-drum, routine, existence might be about to change for the better... ? Well, simultaneously her agent "Archie" (Peter Kim) is trying to get the rather seedy, gay casting-couch merchant "J Whitman" (Reed Birney) to produce her play and the film juggles her rapping and writing aspirations set against her day-job teaching a disparate bunch of students with attitude and talent - but both need to be controlled! At it's best, this is great - the rapping is potent and poetic; the comedy can be funny - if somewhat predictable; and she is an engaging and likeable character. It is, however, far too long and auteur Blank struggles to maintain the pace and focus of the film for much of what just turns out to be a fairly ordinary tale of a single woman trying to recalibrate. I enjoyed it, but it really could have been doing with a more objective hand at the helm.

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