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Dancehall Queen
Directed byRick Elgood
Don Letts
Written bySuzanne Fenn
Don Letts
Ed Wallace
Produced byCarl Bradshaw
Carolyn Pfeiffer
Chris Blackwell
StarringAudrey Reid
Paul Campbell
Beenie Man
Cherine Anderson
CinematographyLouis Mulvey
Edited bySuzanne Fenn
Music byWally Badarou
Release date
October 10, 1997
Running time
98 minutes
LanguageJamaican Patois

Dancehall Queen is a 1997 independent Jamaican film starring Audrey Reid who plays Marcia, a street vendor struggling to raise two daughters.

Marcia (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter, Tanya (Cherine Anderson). Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hood who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems--Larry, Priest, and a lack of money---Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and pit both of the men against one another. Which is exactly what she does, and it's great fun watching Marcia instigate her complicated plan with a little help from sympathetic friends.