It's sweetly amiable and solidly performed, but Black Nativity suffers from director Kasi Lemmons' heavy-handed treatment of its celebrated source material.
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Black Nativity

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Black Nativity
Movie Info
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Director -
Kasi Lemmons -
Producer -
Celine Rattray , William Horberg , Galt Niederhoffer , T. D. Jakes -
Screenwriter -
Kasi Lemmons -
Distributor -
20th Century Fox -
Production Co -
Wonderful Films , Maven Pictures -
Rating -
PG (Language|A Menacing Situation|Thematic Material) -
Genre -
Holiday , Musical , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Nov 27, 2013, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Oct 31, 2015 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$7.0M -
Runtime -
1h 33m -
Sound Mix -
Datasat , SDDS , Dolby Digital