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BLOCK
PARTY
Synopsis:
Her
father always taught her to follow her dreams.
And that's just what C.J. did.
Growing up, C.J. was a sweet church girl with a great
voice—a voice she knew was her ticket to the easy life of fame
and fortune and her ticket out of the dingy urban neighborhood
in decline that had claimed the life of her father.
Now
C.J. has transformed herself into the skimpy-Versace-wearing,
R-rated-lyric-spouting Madame C.J., the new rising bad girl star
of the hip hop scene. With
three hits and another on its way, her career is in fast forward
and she's living the life she's always wanted—but at a price.
Stardom
is not the easy life—sweating it out on stage night after
night, filming videos, working the publicity machine, and never
getting out of the public eye.
C.J.’s slick manager, Street, repeatedly reminds her it
could all go away with one wrong step.
And C.J.'s ambition has left a few torn relationships in
its wake. Back in
her old neighborhood still lives the grounded man she left
behind, the impressionable younger brother lured by the
temptations of gang life, and the disapproving mother unable to
accept her daughter's transformation from mommy's little angel
to crass "ghetto" superstar.
The
opportunity arises for C.J. to repair these relationships when
her mother, Beverly, falls ill and is unable to coordinate their
neighborhood’s block party, an annual source of community
bonding and outright fun that Beverly has proudly organized for
many years.
Though still facing huge career demands, C.J. moves back
to the 'hood to organize the block party herself.
In the process of dealing with a colorful cast of
local characters to put on the best party ever, C.J. reacquaints
herself with the neighborhood she abandoned three years earlier
-- and ultimately realizes she has to learn to love her roots
before she can regain her mother's respect and restore her
self-esteem. |
