Musical & Performing Arts, Musicals, Pop Music, Dance, Teenage, Personal Triumph, Recommended, Showbiz, Theatrical Release, New York City, Essential Cinema
Description
In Alan Parker's FAME, teenagers selected for New York City's High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in show business. This episodic tale follows savvy Coco (Irene Cara), timid Doris (Maureen Teefy), gay Montgomery (Paul McCrane), macho Raul (Barry Miller), soulful Bruno (Lee Curreri), and others as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity.
Cara, electric as the budding songstress Coco, shines brightest in the infectiously exuberant young cast. The film, which won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, overflows at each corner of its loosely unfolding narrative with inspired music and dance numbers that seem to burst forth spontaneously out of sheer irrepressible emotion. With FAME (later developed into a hit television series), Parker finds a happy medium between the wildly diverging tones of his previous two features, the goofy kids-as-gangsters musical BUGSY MALONE and the harrowing prison thriller MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, and in doing so creates an enjoyable, glittering portrait of guileless teenage ambition.
DVD Features
Blu-ray Disc Features:
Region [unknown] Note: Class reunion commentary with branching video highlights and featuring director Alan Parker and co-stars Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Gene Anthony and Maureen Teefy Vintage featurette on loation with Fame Fame field trip visits the school that inspired the movie Theatrical trailer
Yes...not only did I wear out many copies of this film on VHS I also watched the spin off TV series religiously and spent many hours prancing around the living room in lycra and legwarmers. This is... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Fame with Original CD Soundtrack Sampler Blu-ray Disc
