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"Dancehall Queen"
1997
Directed by Rick Elgood/Don Letts

This modern-day Cinderella story is the largest grossing Jamaican film ever. Marcia, a single mother, toils the streets of the Kingston ghetto by day as a street vendor; by night, she's the "mystery lady," the new star of the Kingston dancehall. If she can win the dancehall contest, the prize money, and more importantly, her own sense of worth, she will be free of lowlife Larry (who pretends to help her but is actually after her eldest daughter), the murderous thug Priest, and the ghetto itself.  95 minutes.