Honey (film)

:For the 2004 independent film, see Honey (2004 film).

Plot

Honey Daniels (Alba) is an aspiring dancer hoping to make her name in music videos. By day, she works for her mother's New York City youth center, teaching dance to local children. By night, Honey dances in New York hip-hop clubs and tends the bar.

Related Topics:
Dancer - Music video - New York City

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Video director Michael Ellis (Moscow) discovers Honey dancing in a New York City hip-hop nightclub and offers her the opportunity to appear in a video with Jadakiss and Sheek of The Lox.

Related Topics:
New York City - Hip-hop - Nightclub - Jadakiss - The Lox

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From that starting point, Honey quickly rises as a successful music video choreographer for Ellis' videos, eventually working for performers such as Tweet and Mark Ronson. During an industry party, a drunken Ellis hits on Honey; after being turned down, he replaces Honey with a competing choreographer for the latest Ginuwine video, in a classic example of casting couch mentality. The loss is a heartbreaker not only for Daniels, but for the children in her youth group, whom she promised roles in the video.

Related Topics:
Tweet - Mark Ronson - Casting couch

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Honey had been planning to use her money to purchase an abandoned building, which she wanted to renovate in a hip hop dance studio for the youth group. Now blackballed by Ellis, she can no longer find good work in music videos, and instead puts on a benefit show with the children to attract outside sponsors. After threatening to fire Ellis when she discovers that Honey no longer works for him, Missy Elliott shows up at the benefit show to request her services. As a result, the children's dance studio gets a sponsor, and Honey returns to major-label video choreography.

Related Topics:
Blackball - Missy Elliott

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