It's called The Clark Sisters, but this movie belongs to Aunjanue Ellis, who gives a dazzling performance. It's called "The Clark Sisters," but this movie belongs to Aunjanue Ellis, who gives a dazzling performance as the mother, choir director, and manager of five daughters who became the most successful female gospel group in history, with Grammys and crossovers to the R&B charts. Mattie Moss Clark was a gospel choir director whose innovative arrangements transformed contemporary gospel.
With guidance from their mother, five siblings overcome humble beginnings to form the renowned gospel group the. The story of the ground-breaking group and the matriarch who pushed them forward is the subject of a new Lifetime movie called The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel. With Aunjanue Ellis, Demore Barnes, Raven Goodwin, Michael Xavier.
The movie will detail their humble beginnings, struggles to find their place, to later becoming the best-selling Gospel group in the music world. Thus, The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies Of Gospel, Lifetime's biopic of the women who brought gospel music to the mainstream, begins. Director Christine Swanson built a career on making moving biopics for television, including Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story, which she filmed for TV One. The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel premiere was the most-watched film on Lifetime in four years. The film received mixed critical reception. Check out Pay or Wait's thoughts on the new #Lifetime film #TheClarksisters #TheFirstLadiesOfGospel.
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Watch Pay or Wait's The Clark Sisters The First Ladies of Gospel Review! The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel intersects black women's history with black gospel as part of the Lifetime network's female-centric agenda. Not as a big as Black Panther, a faux-Afrocentric juvenile fantasy, the subject is more realistic.
But Lifetime's The Clark Sisters:First Ladies of Gospel does a pretty good job of tackling all of these topics while delivering a compelling story. The new film — from director Christine Swanson. The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel doesn't reinvent the conventions of the basic musical biopic. But it's one of the better entries in Lifetime's long history of abysmal movies.