Honey: Rise Up and Dance

Honey: Rise Up and Dance is currently streaming on major platforms, and it rewards the patience it asks of you. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. 108 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Teyana Taylor's performance alone is worth the time investment. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason Honey: Rise Up and Dance keeps coming up in conversation. Honey: Rise Up and Dance trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship. Teyana Taylor and Bryshere Y. Gray lead a cast that treats the material with real seriousness. It hit screens in 2018. What elevates Honey: Rise Up and Dance is a refusal to let any character off the hook too easily. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Honey: Rise Up and Dance. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch from start to finish. Teyana Taylor's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

Honey: Rise Up and Dance was released in 2018, directed by Bille Woodruff. The full 100-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.