when a young low class black fellow from the ghetto and who aspire to be a journalist and want to meet his idol and a black tv newsman while that tv news reporter be at a crime scene and and then when that same old classy black tv reporter and who turn down the young man offer to see a video of the young man work and get kill in an accident while at the crime scene and the young black fellow take his place reporting from the crime scene and become a hit with local viewer and the tv station and it news producer . such be the story of dexter jackson in the 1991 film livinlarge and about a young black man who learn that despite the reward of fame and money to never forget where you come . that lesson would be decent enough to take in except that in the case of livinlarge and the lesson become heavy hand . dexter and play by terrence carter and change more and more and become more remote from his ghetto neighborhood root a he become successful . when a realtor show him around a new townhouse he be go to buy and and his girlfriend tell dexter that she can see the old neighborhood from the townhouse and dexter reply and to his girlfriend dismay and and that be the way i prefer to see them from and the movie show how much he be change because of success and not for the good . a with most film center around black people and these day and the politics concern black and white come into play . blanche baker play her role a the manipulative sleezy news producer very well . her character and kate and mention to dexter that they and white woman and black men and together must work to keep the white man from keep them from reach the top . it be a horrid message from a trashy character and yet it be a message the film itself doesn not distance itself too far from . livin large try to tell black and in a nutshell and that have too much success and be too refine in speech and dress and education and and manner and make you white . it be a message that be somewhat clumsy to present to the audience . there be nothing wrong with success . there be nothing wrong be do the best you can and have dream far from one position in life . livinlarge would wish to sell the idea that if you be black and and try to improve your lot in life and in be different than how black be usually see and portray by the american entertainment medium and be an idea fill with compromise and or sell out and or act white . the film maker and in this case and could not be more than wrong . one would not hate the film and there be some funny moment in it and but it be not quite the film one should reccomend to the general audience at large . .