Jackie's Back!

Jackie Washington was a music star in the 1960s, but fame has long since passed her by. Now a British documentarian sets out to make a portrait of the singer as she works toward a comeback concert, following her through the preparations and the people around her.

The film is a mockumentary comedy with music, directed by Robert Townsend. It was the fourth of the five films he directed, arriving between The Meteor Man and Up, Up, and Away. The script is by Dee LaDuke and Mark Alton Brown, and Gideon Amir produced. Jenifer Lewis plays Jackie, with Tim Curry as the documentarian Edward Whatsett St. John. The cast also includes T.V. Blake and Tangie Ambrose as Jackie's daughters, Whoopi Goldberg as her sister Ethyl, and Robert Bailey Jr. as her grandson. The production credits 81 performers and 54 crew members.

Released in 1999 as a television movie made in the United States by Hearst Entertainment Productions, Lifetime and Krost/Chapin Productions, it runs 91 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from 841 votes, a solid score for a television film of its era.