It used to be “can a white boy sing the blues,” but now it is “can a white girl rap,” in the Sundance hit PATTI CAKE$. Of course, Patricia Dombrowski, aka Patti Cake$, isn’t a girl any more, she’s a ...

Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.

In her dreams, Patricia Dombrowski is Patti Cake$, a gold-toothed rap superstar slinging virtuoso rhymes from the heavens. In reality, Patti is a plain, plus-size, lower-class Jersey girl in a ...

When I was growing up, I was always told to dream big, but it was tough for me, a plus-size woman, to find other plus-size women as role models who were succeeding in achieving their dreams. On-screen ...

The story beats of Patti Cake$, a socioeconomic-sermonizing comedy about a thick young white woman with huge hip-hop dreams and few prospects, are as predictable as the ticking of an egg timer, as ...

Coming-of-age tale Patti Cake$ would be overwhelmed by its quirks if it weren’t constructed of them. An overweight white battle rapper and bartender, Patricia (Danielle Macdonald), seeks the escape ...