Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.
- Awards
- 8 nominations
- Benny
- (as Lil' Romeo)
- Katrina
- (as Laurie Ann Gibson)
- Katrina's Friend
- (as O'Neal McNight)
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- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsWhen Honey is distributing posters with her father, as the camera pans out after they put up the poster you can see "Queen Video" on a sign across the street, indicating not New York City but Queen St. W in Toronto.
- Quotes
Chaz: Besides, I never mess up a kid's head, especially when his mom's in the shop.
Honey: [Chuckles] He's eight. That would have made me 14. I'm not that kind of girl.
Chaz: My bad.
Honey: We just peoples.
Raymond: Yeah, we peoples.
Chaz: You peoples? Playa, playa, how'd you swing that? I've been tryin' to be her peoples for weeks. Ain't had no luck.
Raymond: I got flow.
[All laughing]
Chaz: I got flow too. You don't think I got some flow?
Raymond: Maybe not as much as me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Dance Movies of the 2000s (2020)
- SoundtracksOoh-Wee
Written by Bobby Hobb
Performed by Mark Ronson (featuring Ghostface Killah, Nate Dogg, Saigon & Trife Da God (as Trife)
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group
Contains a sample of "Scorpio"
As recorded by Dennis Coffey
Licensed courtesy of Avant Garde Enterprises, Inc./Interior Music Corp.
Only the most Scrooge-like curmudgeon could object to the positive, laudatory, pull-yourself-up-bythe-bootstraps message the film is trying to convey, and one would have to be downright inhuman not to feel uplifted by the final dance sequence. But good intentions and noble aspirations do not, in and of themselves, make for a quality film, and `Honey' is a long way from fitting that bill. The movie wants to be taken seriously as a realistic view of urban life but very little of what we see ever rings true, starting with Honey herself who, with her invariably perky demeanor, seems like a cross between Little Mary Sunshine and Mother Teresa in form fitting jeans and matching halter top. Everything that happens to her from her meteoric rise in the music video world to her purchase of an empty store for her new dance studio to the benefit performance she and her dancers stage to raise the money for the project all come about way too easily and with virtually no noticeable effort on her part. We never believe for a moment that any of this would happen in this way in the real world. Thus, `Honey' is really little more than an urban fairy tale, fine for children, I suppose, but not of much use for adults with a more pragmatic understanding of how life actually works.
Jessica Alba is no great shakes as an actress, though she has an infectious smile and a bubbly demeanor that work well on screen. But it is Zachary Williams, as the adorable, gap-toothed eight-year-old Raymond, who steals the show. Now that is one hell of an endearing little kid.
- Buddy-51
- Aug 13, 2004
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Vũ Công Ngọt Ngào
- Filming locations
- Lower Bay Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada(dancing on subway platform)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $30,308,417
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,856,040
- Dec 7, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $62,228,395
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1