Glitter is a 2001 American
romantic musical drama film produced by
20th Century Fox and
Columbia Pictures, starring
American R&B singer-songwriter
Mariah Carey and featuring rapper
Da Brat. The film was written by Kate Lanier and directed by
Vondie Curtis Hall. Set in 1982, Carey plays Billie Frank, who wants to be a famous singer, and along with her friends Louise and Roxanne, is a club dancer. Timothy Walker (
Terrence Howard) offers them a contract as backup singers/dancers to a singer. In the premiere of the song they recorded, Frank meets Julian "Dice" Black (
Max Beesley), who is a
DJ in a night club, and helps her in her solo career. In the process, Frank and Dice fall in love with each other.