In 1997, young marrieds Fox and Rob G. Rich — high school sweethearts — opened a hip-hop apparel business in Shreveport, La. “What I remember more than anything was not wanting to fail, and we had become desperate,” Fox Rich says in one of the voice-overs that carry the film. As ripe for rebuttal as her assessment may be, it doesn’t make Fox Rich any less compelling a protagonist. Rob Rich was sentenced to 60 years without the chance of parole or — at the time — any hope of sentencing mitigation. In the sweep of Bradley’s epic vision, Fox Rich is both a Penelope and an Odysseus for America’s dark odyssey.

Source: New York Times October 08, 2020 17:20 UTC