Whitney: Can I Be Me
Driving by the great success she achieves during her professional life as a singer, this movie embodies the life story of Whitney, a famous singer, who once has found dead, as it follows her earlier life, till her fame and celebrity, receiving help from her friends and family, as they reveal more and more about her life, and the struggles she faces.
22 December 1945, Glasgow, Kentucky, USA
12 September 1944, Galveston, Texas, USA
25 September 1929, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
20 August 1931, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
23 October 1925, Corning, Iowa, USA
4 April 1932, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
13 September 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 January 1957, Arlington, Virginia, USA
8 June 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
April 2, 1928 in Paris, France
18 January 1955, Lynwood, California, USA
30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 August 1963, Newark, New Jersey, USA
11 July 1958, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
12 December 1940, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
1 November 1949, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
12 May 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1 December 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 September 1933, Newark, New Jersey, USA
8 April 1963, Liverpool, England, UK
5 February 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 August 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 July 1925, San Mateo, California, USA
August 25, 2017
While the documentary offers strong concert performances and an array of opinions on her enormous talent and tragic demise from those in her band, her entourage, friends and family, it contains no major revelations.
August 18, 2017
Whitney itself operates on two levels -- delivering another cautionary tale about the price of fame, but also a tribute to a voice so big and buoyant that it continues to echo long after her death.
August 16, 2017
[A] sharp, well-edited film ...
August 24, 2017
By the end ... you won't feel you know anything new about Houston's life. "Can I Be Me" just raises questions.
September 06, 2017
The film is far from prurient.
August 18, 2017
It crafts a heartbreaking narrative through found footage, including never-before-seen interviews, performances and clips that address everything from her intimate relationship with best friend Robyn Crawford to her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown.
August 18, 2017
As is often the case in documentaries like this, absorbing all those details as part of one, tightly edited story gives them an impact they lack when digested in individual pieces over time.
September 06, 2017
Whitney Houston's majestic voice sadly takes second place to her baleful decline.
August 17, 2017
Can I Be Me treats its subject with a reverence that's a bit too delicate.
August 17, 2017
"Whitney's" story makes for strong and compelling viewing even though it has something of a cobbled together feel to it.
August 18, 2017
It's no surprise that Nick Broomfield finds little use for the moments of unabashed triumphalism in Houston's life, as he's doggedly fixated on the humiliating swan dive.
August 17, 2017
A surprisingly conventional, dutifully respectful behind-the-scenes portrait of Whitney Houston's rise and struggles with fame and drugs before her death at 48.
