Sparkle PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 9, 2007
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Irene Cara & Lonette McKee | |
Performer: | Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood, Tony King, Beatrice Winde & Paul Lambert | |
Directed by | Sam O'Steen | |
Written by | Joel Schumacher | |
Composition by | Curtis Mayfield | |
Art Direction by | Peter Wooley | |
Produced by | Howard Rosenman | |
Director of Photography: | Bruce Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
[An] uneasy marriage of cliched melodrama and music in an odd March of Time technique.
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Gannett News Service
Has all the shine of a badly cut rhinestone.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: B- --
It's a rags-to-riches story that doesn't miss a stop along the well-trod ghetto-to-musical-charts path, but makes its journey with tuneful conviction.
AV Club
Rating: 2/5 --
Predictable rise-to-fame tale with gangs, drugs, violence.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2/4 --
Good performances from the principals and a score by Curtis Mayfield nearly raise this film to a more distinguished level.
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TV Guide
Drab as it is, Sparkle's worth renting for Lorette McKee's performance and the cast renditions of Mayfield's songs. But if you're going to buy anything it should be the soundtrack album.
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Film4
One of the best things to emerge from the film version of DREAMGIRLS is the release of an even better movie, 1976's SPARKLE... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Irene Cara (of FLASHDANCE soundtrack fame) and Lonette McKee star in this dramatic story of a musical trio's rise to stardom. Three sisters, who are raised in an impoverished neighborhood, have dreams of become pop singers. After a dark period which includes entering several dinky talent shows, they are finally discovered, and enter a world of glamour and fame. Like many though, they soon learn that there is a dangerous side to success, and they must find ways to combat the threat of self-destruction. A score by the infamous Curtis Mayfield adds soul to the drama, and the three women's tour-de-force performances are riveting.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 125,262
- UPC: 085393197421
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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