One Love (2003 film)

One Love
Directed by Rick Elgood
Don Letts
Produced by Nik Powell
Written by Trevor D. Rhone
Starring Ky-Mani Marley
Cherine Anderson
Vas Blackwood
Idris Elba
Distributed by Blue Dolphin Film Distributors
Release dates
  • September 7, 2003 (Toronto Film Festival)
Running time
97 minutes
Country Jamaica
Language English

One Love is a 2003 Jamaican film starring Ky-Mani Marley and Cherine Anderson. It was written by Trevor D. Rhone and directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts.

The film is set in Jamaica and is a romance with reggae. A young Rasta musician falls in love with the gospel-singing daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, meeting her as they both sign up for a music contest.A contest which the winner gets twenty thousand US dollars and a record deal.When they start falling in love her father forbids her from seeing him because he wants her to marry a church member.They face overcoming the preacher's disapproval as well as battling a corrupt record producer.

Cast

In addition to the singing of the two principals, the soundtrack includes Bob Marley and Shaggy.

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