Nina Simone was very young when her musical ability first appeared.

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The uninspired, generic Hollywood score often makes the premise feel preposterous rather than moving, but there are some high points, including a gorgeous Michael Hedges tune that gets passed off as an original by August (which he plays the first time he picks up a guitar) and a gospel number featuring a solo by the preternaturally gifted young singer Jamia Simone Nash.

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Pleet, a 29-year-old designer who dresses indie bands such as the ethereal Au Revoir Simone and Dirty Projectors, knows her client: the cute, somewhat bookish, artsy young woman who lives in Brooklyn.

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