On the Record (2020) on Netflix
NR20201h 35mDocumentary
Drew Dixon, a former A&R executive at Def Jam Records, says the label's co-founder, Russell Simmons, raped her. She weighs whether to come forward publicly during the MeToo movement.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.2/101,040 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes99%
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Drew Dixon worked as an A&R executive at Def Jam Records, and she says that the label's co-founder, Russell Simmons, raped her in his apartment. She was the first woman to publicly accuse him, in a New York Times article in December 2017. The documentary follows her decision to speak during the MeToo movement, and it hears from other women who have accused Simmons, among them Sil Lai Abrams, Sherri Hines, Jenny Lumet and Alexia Norton Jones. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kierna Mayo and Tarana Burke offer commentary.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about On the Record (2020)
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- Oprah Winfrey withdrew as executive producer in January 2020, canceling the film's Apple TV+ distribution deal, and told directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering only 20 minutes before making her departure public.
- After the film was announced, Russell Simmons and supporters including 50 Cent pressured Oprah Winfrey to cancel it, with Simmons phoning and texting her directly, while women in the film were targeted on social media in what they saw as attempts to threaten and intimidate them.
- Amy Ziering met Rose McGowan at a 2016 Sundance dinner, where McGowan told her Harvey Weinstein had sexually assaulted her; Ziering and Kirby Dick then pitched a film on the subject and were rejected.
- Drew Dixon is the daughter of former Washington, D.C. mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly and former D.C. Council chairman Arrington Dixon, and was the first woman to publicly accuse Russell Simmons of assault, in a New York Times article published in December 2017.
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