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Movie 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.
Synopsis
This episodic tale follows eight students through their years at New York City's High School of the Performing Arts. The talented teens struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom, while coping with the problems of insecurity and identity that plague teenagers everywhere.
Film Notes
Songs include:
"Fame"
"Red Light"
"I Sing the Body Electric"
"Dogs in the Yard"
"Hot Lunch Jam"
"Out Here on My Own"
"Is It OK If I Call You Mine?"
Industry Reviews
"...It's a rousing, lively production, bursting out of the screen with talent and exuberance..."
Variety - Robe. (04/30/1980)
"...A jubilant, hugely entertaining movie....The cast is full of glowing newcomers, the score is emphatically upbeat..."
New York Times - p.C14 - Janet Maslin (05/16/1980)
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