Movie
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Overview
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
Details
- Release date
- 2001-05-08
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- New Line Television, MTV
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Mekhi Phifer as Hill
- Beyoncé as Carmen Brown
- Yasiin Bey as Lt. Miller
- Rah Digga as Rasheeda
- Joy Bryant as Nikki
- Wyclef Jean as Fortune Teller
- Da Brat as Narrator
- Jermaine Dupri as Pockets
- Shad Moss as Jalil
- Casey Lee as Blaze
- Reagan Gomez-Preston as Caela
- Yuri Brown as Nori
Crew
- Robert Townsend - Director
- Michael Elliot - Screenplay
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