She’s an overweight, struggling white rapper from Jersey who gets called Dumbo when she walks down the street. But in her heart she’s Killer-P, a force to be reckoned with and the life-affirming star ...

Late in writer-director Geremy Jasper’s energetic directorial debut, “Patti Cake$,” a wealthy, powerful black male rap mogul, O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah), sizes up the overweight blonde white girl who has just ...

Patricia Dombrowski, the hefty young blond woman at the center of this offbeat comedy, chafes at the nickname “Dumbo”—in her mind, she’s the hip-hop sensation Killa P, aka Patti Cake$, and stardom is ...

For dreamers, there are few places on earth that beckon like New York City. And it's especially tempting for those on the other side of the Hudson River, in New Jersey. The tension between big dreams ...