In the Mix
When New York’s hottest night club disc jockey, Darrell, is asked to DJ a party for mob boss Frank, Darrell becomes acquainted with Frank's beautiful daughter Dolly. After Darrell manages to rescue Frank, in order to repay him, the mobster gives him the task of protecting his daughter.
27 August 1984, Clinton, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1977, White Plains, New York, USA
10 December 1975, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
5 November 1969, Bronx, New York, USA
6 December 1978, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
26 June 1951, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
February 04, 2007
Easily engages the viewer in the same fashion as the best of the romance genre.
February 21, 2006
It's clearly conceived solely as a star vehicle for the ubiquitous Usher and his washboard abs, with plot coherence and originality coming in somewhere lower in the pecking order.
November 30, 2005
Usher, who has a squinty charm, is forced to display an infinite polite chivalry that would have shamed Sidney Poitier.
December 05, 2005
People richer than you get paid to come up with this stuff.
November 28, 2005
[A] one-dimensional romantic comedy that ... feels like an old-fashioned vehicle picture, the kind the big movie studios used to make in the 1930's and 40's just to bring in the fans of a particular actor or actress.
December 02, 2005
This thing is as formulaically bland as the rest of its Tinseltown kind.
November 28, 2005
... pic is never too insulting to the viewer, and works up a fair amount of goodwill by the good graces of Usher's Will Smithian charisma and an extremely attractive filmmaking package ...
November 29, 2005
Played mostly as a drama but utterly devoid of tension, the film mainly comes across as recycled.
April 28, 2006
With its laughable dramatic sequences and goofy supporting characters, this film is hard to dismiss as entertainment: a camp treat for comics as well as Usher fans.
December 02, 2005
In The Mix is not just mixed up, it is muddled.
December 02, 2005
The failure is with a script as ungainly as it is and an oversimplified conception of American-Italian and black cultures.
December 09, 2005
It's not exactly atrocious, but it constantly makes you wonder why those involved couldn't find something better to do.
