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Fame (1980)

Fame (1980)
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Product Details: Fame (1980)

Edition:DVD
MPAA Rating:R
Release Date:09/15/2009
UPC:883929063390
Directed by:Alan Parker
Featuring:Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean (II), See all cast

Synopsis: Fame (1980)

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...
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.

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Features: Fame (1980)

Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
Alan Parker Commentary
Audio Commentary: Class Reunion Commentary
Other: Fame Field Trip - A tour of the "famed" school and the folks who work there.

Awards: Fame (1980)

Academy Awards
Best Original Score:Michael Gore
Best Original Song:Michael Gore
Best Original Song:Dean Pitchford

User Reviews: Fame (1980)

  • Overall:

    I'm gonna live forever (Entropy)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 27, 1999

    Anyone familiar with the second law of thermodynamics knows that all closed systems tend to move towards disorder. Fame, however, claims that "I'm gonna live forever." Pretty brash statement in light of the current quantum and relativistic understan...ding of physics, eh? I wisht that this movie could transcend entropy, but it falls short by a decameter. The dialogue was chaos and the plot was fatter than a tau lepton with unnecessary characters. Twelve thumbs down. Read more Less

  • Overall:

    i thought it was very inspirational.

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 6, 1999

    This movie was very inspirational to me for the simple reason that i go to a school just like that one for ballet. It is inspired me cause i want to be a proffesional ballet damcer when i am older and that is very similar to what they are.

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