Michael Elliot’s Typical Vibe
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Michael Elliot has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past.
Dir. Alanna Brown · With Serayah, Tyler Lepley, Phylicia Rashād

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
Dir. Rick Famuyiwa · With Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Yasiin Bey

Physical therapist Leslie Wright lands the dream job of working with basketball superstar Scott McKnight, helping him recover from a career-threatening injury. All goes well and soon Leslie finds herself falling in love with him. Just as their friendship deepens, however, Scott focuses his attention back on his tenuous relationship with his ex-fiancé Morgan, Leslie's gorgeous godsister, who would love to be the basketball player's trophy wife.
Dir. Sanaa Hamri · With Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton

Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.
Dir. John Schultz · With Shad Moss, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki