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It's what eight talented teenagers are all hotly pursing at New York's School of Performing Arts, it's an explosion of pulsating music and spectacular dance, and it's one of the most highly acclaimed movie-musicals of our time. "A jubilant, hugely entertaining movie, bubbling with life," raved The New York Times. It's got Irene Cara, whose "What A Feeling" topped all the charts, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri and a finale as exciting as any musical number you're ever likely to see. "Fame has heart, guts, and power" says Rona Barrett of ABC. It's a movie not to be missed!
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Theatrical Trailer | | Making-Of Documentary-On Location With Fame | | Fame Field Trip Visits the School That Inspired the Movie | | Behind-the-Scenes Notes | | Audio: English Dolby 5.1; French Dolby Stereo | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Class Reunion Commentary with Branching Video and Featuring Director Alan Parker and Co-Stars Lee Curreri, Lauren Dean, Gene Anthony Ray and Maureen Teefy | | Widescreen Version | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 6/1/2004 |
| Running Time: 80 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1980 | | Catalog ID: 65145 | | UPC: 00012569514522 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1980) |  | Michael Gore, Winner, Best Music, Original Score | | Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, Winner, Best Music, Song ("Fame") | | | Lesley Gore, Michael Gore, Nominee, Best Music, Song ("Out Here On My Own") | | | Christopher Gore, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...It's a rousing, lively production, bursting out of the screen with talent and exuberance..." 04/30/1980New York Times
"...A jubilant, hugely entertaining movie....The cast is full of glowing newcomers, the score is emphatically upbeat..." 05/16/1980 p.C14 BBCi 7 of 10
You come away from it with all your preconceptions about the glamour of show business wiped away and you can't help admire the characters who get through. And that's what makes this good: not everybody succeeds. There's a terrible sense of doom at times as you watch their mistakes and know that there will not be an automatic happy ending... - William Gallagher
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