Fame
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alan Parker, Anne Meara, Antonia Franceschi, Irene Cara, Maureen Teefy Brand: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 133 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of Fame
Movie Review: Trashy Soap Opera
Summary: 1 Stars
Fortunately this has been discontinued by the manufacturer, but you might save a misguided rental fee. I was shocked at how bad this was. Some of the performers are quite talented, but their talent is wasted. We have every ethnic stereotype in the book: overprotected Jewish girl, poor little rich white girl, African-American street-dwelling break-dancer, troubled gay son of absent parents, and a Puerto Rican from a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood and a mother steeped in religious superstition with a Freddie Prinze fixation. There is only one character from an even semi-functional family, an eccentric musical genius from a loving blue-collar Italian family. The actors are all waaaaay too old for their parts--they're supposed to be 14 when the movie starts but they all look old enough to have finished college. The sex, drugs, unwanted pregnancy, and other teen drama is trite and overblown and far too graphic (in case your memory is fuzzy and you're thinking this might have been the "High School Musical" for your generation). Even the musical numbers, which are few and far between, seem disjointed and forced. My son attends an arts-focused school so I thought he'd enjoy seeing what the "big kids" do . . . not.