
Patti Cake
PATTI CAKE$ is centered on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey.




















1 July 1965, New York City, New York, USA


21 April 1972, Manhattan, Kansas, USA






1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA








November 1, 1991 in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA

3 August 1966, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA


29 June 1995, Bronxville, New York, USA







16 August 1970, San Rafael, California, USA



October 23, 2017
Patti Cake$ has a story that feels authentic and touching, a hard-knocks tale played to a hip-hop beat, and with a star-making turn by Australian actress Danielle Macdonald
August 25, 2017
The performances are all first-rate - particularly Bridget Everett as Macdonald's haggard mother - but first time writer-director Geremy Jasper makes more bad choices than his misguided characters here.
August 24, 2017
Patti Cake$ isn't really a comedy; too much sadness and despair intrude to make it so. But it's a joy to watch Macdonald in action ...
October 23, 2017
Credit Danielle Macdonald for an emotionally authentic performance - one wrong turn, and she could be a caricature or, gulp, a Movie Character, fulfilling the screenplay's many familiar tropes.
November 02, 2017
Patti Cake$ [exerts] only a tenuous hold on our hearts.
August 31, 2017
A rough-edged charmer that puts its own stamp on the underdog story.
August 25, 2017
Patti Cake$ for the most part avoids feeling like a song you've heard before. It's too big-hearted and genuine not to love.
October 31, 2017
Danielle Macdonald is funny and endearing as Patti.
September 25, 2017
While Patti can certainly makes some words rhyme, she has no flow.
August 24, 2017
If you see it, there may be stretches where you'll want to give up and say, "Enough already." Yet something in Danielle Macdonald's performance keeps us in our seats ...
October 04, 2017
"[Macdonald's performance is] a star-making turn in a movie that's all about chasing star-making chances, and it comes with excellent support from Everett and Moriarty."
August 25, 2017
Take "8 Mile" and cross it with "Hustle & Flow" and add a little bit of "Precious" and you have "Patti Cake$," a hip-hop underdog story about finding the rhythm by following your own beat.