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  • Parton and Latifah to make a Joyful Noise in musical - 24 August 2010
    -Queen of country Dolly Parton is teaming up with Queen Latifah on the big screen - the pair will try to save a gospel choir from closure in new musical Joyful Noise.- -The 64-year-old singer will make her movie comeback starring as a widow who takes over her late husb


  • Latifah wants to direct sci-fi - 6 May 2010
    -Rapper/actress Queen Latifah is searching for the perfect sci-fi project to make her directorial debut - because she's a secret Star Trek fan.- -The star, real name Dana Owens, has carved out a career for herself in Hollywood starring in and producing movies like upco


  • Latifah insists on living in all her films - 7 March 2010
    -Queen Latifah has a no-death clause in her movie contract, which prevents directors from killing her characters off.- -The rapper-turned-actress admits she insisted on the addition to her filming paperwork after characters she played lost their lives in Set It Off and

Queen Latifah - what members say


  • Set It Off
  • Set It Off review by from BOSTON
    Rated - 5.0 stars 31 August 2004
    ... to rob a bank, but not just one. The acting from the likes of Jade Pinkett and Queen Latifah leave you wanting more. In parts of the film is fun but in other quite sad as f...   Read customer review
  • The Bone Collector
  • The Bone Collector review by A customer from Leatherhead
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Bone Collector 24 August 2010
    ... must watch in my opinion. Good work from Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Queen Latifah just finished off this exceptional film....   Read customer review
  • Stranger Than Fiction
  • Stranger Than Fiction review by BH101 from Cambridge
    Rated - 5.0 stars Masterpiece of its type 11 December 2006
    ... once it hits its stride, it's truly captivating. There's not quite enough for Queen Latifah to do, and there are a few sections which drag a tiny bit around the middle, bu...   Read customer review

Queen Latifah - filmography


  • Sistas Of R'n'B Hip Hop Soul Vol.3 - Rih... (2 discs) on DVD (2013)
    Starring: Rihanna,  Queen Latifah
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A two DVD collection of Sistas of R? Hip Hop Soul, Rihanna & Queen Latifah. Discovered by super producer Evan Rogers, Rihanna packed up all she had and left her hometown of Barbados in search of fame and fortune. Introduced to Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, she gave the performance of her life to lock up a ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 4 members
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  • Joyful Noise on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Dolly Parton,  Keke Palmer
    Director: Todd Graff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 352 members
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  • Joyful Noise - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Dolly Parton,  Keke Palmer
    Director: Todd Graff
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4 members
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  • Valentine's Day - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Geo,  Eric Dane
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Garry Marshall directs this romantic comedy following the experiences of various intertwining Los Angeles singletons and couples as they break up and make up on Valentine's Day. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,746 members
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  • Just Wright (2010)
    Starring: Paula Patton,  Queen Latifah,  Pam Grier
    Director: Sanaa Hamri
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A female physical therapist is drafted by an all-star basketball player to help him recover from a career-threatening injury. The two soon fall in love in what is a modern-day Cinderella story.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 123 members
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  • Valentine's Day on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Geo,  Eric Dane
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Garry Marshall directs this romantic comedy following the experiences of various intertwining Los Angeles singletons and couples as they break up and make up on Valentine's Day. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 36,065 members
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  • What Happens in Vegas on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ashton Kutcher,  Cameron Diaz,  Queen Latifah
    Director: Tom Vaughan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in Sin City, the story revolves around two people who discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery, with one of them winning a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The unhappy pair try to undermine each other and get their hands on the money--falling in love along ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 51,604 members
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  • What Happens In Vegas - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Treat Williams,  Lake Bell
    Director: Tom Vaughan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as Joy and Jack, two strangers who spend a drunken night together in Las Vegas only to wake up the next morning to discover that they've married each other. To make matters worse, Jack wins the $3 million jackpot on a slot machine after playing Joy's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,627 members
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  • Mad Money on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Ted Danson,  Katie Holmes
    Director: Callie Khouri
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Crime comedy starring Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah. When two bored bank clerks, Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes), become embroiled in a heist along with career mother-turned-cleaner Bridget (Keaton), the unlikely alliance changes all three women's lives forever. The women all have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,189 members
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  • Hairspray - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  John Travolta,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Musical comedy starring John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer. Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) is an overweight teenager with all the right moves who is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny (Amanda Bynes) run home to watch the show and drool over ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,932 member
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  • Life Support on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Queen Latifah
    Director: Nelson George
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama based on a true story. The movie centres around a HIV-positive Brooklyn woman named Ana (Queen Latifah), who channels her energy and regret over past drug addiction into working for 'Life Support', an AIDS outreach group. Ana, who contracted the virus by sharing drugs with her husband Slick (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 354 members
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  • Arctic Tale on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Queen Latifah
    Director: Adam Ravetch,  Sarah Robertson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This heartbreaking documentary puts a face on the sad statistics of global warming--and though it's not a human face, it's the perhaps even more effective face of an adorable polar bear cub, Nanu, along with her mother, her brother, and her natural enemy, the equally heart-melting Seela the walrus. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,765 member
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  • Last Holiday on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jane A,  Queen Latifah,  Michael Nouri
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Queen Latifah plays smalltown supermarket worker Georgia Byrd, who is told that she only has three weeks to live. Deciding to go out in style, Georgia jets off for a dream holiday in Europe, taking up residence in a swanky spa town, where her outrageous attitude is soon shaking up the locals, as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13,513 members
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  • Muppet's Wizard Of Oz on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Ashanti,  David Alan Grier
    Director: Kirk R. Thatcher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Contemporary version of the classic movie based on the novel by L. Frank Baum. Dorothy Gale (Ashanti) is a teenager with dreams of showbiz that seem far from coming true in the Kansas trailer park where she lives. When she's transported to the magical land of Oz, she and her sidekick, Toto (Pepe ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,594 members
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  • Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2005)
    Starring: Ray Romano,  John Leguizamo,  Denis Leary
    Director: Carlos Saldanha
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit Ice Age. This time around the Ice Age is over and is starting to melt, which will destroy their valley. So they must unite and warn everyone about the situation.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 51,278 members
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  • Taxi on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Gisele Bundchen,  Jennifer Esposito
    Director: Tim Story
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Loose comic remake of the 1990s French film trilogy written by Luc Besson. Queen Latifah stars as Belle Williams, New York's fastest (and flashest) cab driver. However, her real dream is to be a racing driver, an ambition she is well on her way to realising - until bumbling cop Andy Washburn (Jimmy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 24,388 members
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  • Scary Movie 3 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: D.L. Hughley,  Simon Cowell,  Charlie Sheen
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The comedy spoof series continues delivering madcap mayhem in its third incarnation, skewering horror blockbusters with other movie genres and pop culture. Now out of college, Cindy has become a TV news reporter out to find a hard-hitting news story. She soon uncovers all kinds of mysterious ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 20,697 members
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  • Bringing Down The House on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Joan Plowright,  Steve Harris
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A salutory tale about the perils of Internet chat rooms. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin), an uptight lawyer, meets his soul-mate on the Internet and arranges a meeting. Imagine his shock when he meets Charlene (Latifah), a manic prisoner on the run. When Peter decides he wants nothing to do with her,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,290 members
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  • Chicago - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this Oscar-winning big screen adaptation of the popular Broadway show. In 1920s Chicago nightclub singer Velma Kelly (Zeta Jones) and aspiring starlet Roxie Hart (Zellweger) are both arrested on the same night for committing two different murders. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,166 member
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  • Chicago on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Everyone loves a legend--but in Chicago, there's only room for one. Velma Kelly burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband, she lands on Chicago's famed murderess row, retains Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, and becomes the center of the town's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 24,779 members
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  • The Bone Collector on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ed O'N,  John Benjamin Hickey,  Ed O'Neill
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The Bone Collector is a shattering suspense-thriller in which two cops on the trail of a brutal serial killer must see as one, act as one and think as one before the next victim falls. Rhymes (Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington) is a brilliant forensics detective paralyzed on assignment from a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,087 members
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  • The Bone Collector - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Ed O'N,  John Benjamin Hickey,  Ed O'Neill
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When street cop Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) discovers a hideously mutilated corpse, her superiors call on forensics expert Lincoln Rhymes (Denzel Washington) to investigate. Paralysed after an injury sustained in the line of duty, the case gives Rhymes a new lease of life, but he needs a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,580 members
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  • Sphere on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Queen Latifah,  Michael Keys Hall
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A mysterious deadly force has been discovered beneath the surface of the Pacific. Psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) is sent by the government to investigate with a specialist team, including Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), a biochemist, and Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), a sceptical ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,733 members
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  • Living Out Loud (1998)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Elias Koteas,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Richard LaGravenese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Judith (Holly Hunter) has not been able to move on since her husband left her. However, her life receives a kickstart from the unlikeliest of sources - the lift operator (Danny DeVito) who works in her upmarket apartment complex. He has his own ghosts to lay to rest, and the odd couple begin a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 448 members
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  • Hoodlum on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Laurence Fishburne,  Laurence Fishburne
    Director: Bill Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The underworld of 1930s New York erupts into civil war when vicious gang boss Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth) attempts to muscle in on the Harlem numbers racket, run by Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne). As Johnson's empire comes under threat and his personal life is shattered, he makes a desperate last ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 634 members
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  • Set It Off on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Vivica A. Fox,  John C. McGinley
    Director: F. Gary Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Stony (Jada Pinket), Cleo (Queen Latifah), Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) and Tisean (Kimberley Elise) are four broke women in Los Angeles. When Stony's brother is shot by the police and Tisean's son is taken out of her care, the women decide to raise money by robbing a bank. Their efforts are thwarted ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,055 members
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  • Queen Latifah - Unauthorized on DVD
    Starring: Queen Latifah
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Unauthorised biography of Queen Latifah, following the journey of a girl from New Jersey who became a Hip Hop Queen. Latifah started her career beatboxing until a local DJ heard a demo version of Latifah's single Princess of the Posse and got her signed up with Tommy Boy Records. In 1989 when ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 32% from 33 members
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