Jamal Woolard plays rap star Biggie Smalls, aka the Notorious B.I.G., with a sleepy-eyed heft that wins you over even when he’s hard to take.

Starr Carter describes herself as a girl of two versions. The socially savvy 16-year-old keeps her twin selves on well-oiled tracks—until they’re both blasted out of the water by a policeman.