Fame R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 3, 2003
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Irene Cara & Eddie Barth | |
Performer: | Lee Curreri, Billy Hufsey, Barry Miller, Paul McCrane, Maureen Teefy, Richard Belzer & Meg Tilly | |
Featured: | Laura Dean | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Music by | Robert F. Colesberry | |
Screenwriting by | Christopher Gore | |
Composition by | Michael Gore | |
Produced by | Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Seresin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Original Score: Michael Gore
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Original Song: Dean Pitchford & Michael Gore
Entertainment Reviews:
Every once in a while what appears to be the entire student body pours out into the street to do song-and-dance numbers, some of which are cheerful enough, but all of which break faith with the film's realistic premise.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Raw look at teen life more shocking than you might recall.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 4/5 --
Nearly thirty years after its debut, Alan Parker's Fame remains, in its way, even fresher than its glossy 2009 remake
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Filmcritic.com
Alan Parker's great virtue is to know how to tell a unique and effective story, without boasting. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 2/4 --
What recommends Fame to whatever degree that it doesn't totally suck is that Parker's still content at this point in his career to not resolve every single storyline
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Film Freak Central
It's a crack at the American Dream which carries all the exhilaration and depth of a 133-minute commercial break.
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Time Out
...It's a rousing, lively production, bursting out of the screen with talent and exuberance...
Variety
Product 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.
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 130,491
- UPC: 012569514522
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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