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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 13 December, 2002 DVD Release : 15 April, 2003 |
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Drumline (Full Screen Edition) description Once you've seen Drumline, halftime shows will become works of art. This formulaic yet surprisingly captivating movie honors the military precision of college football marching bands, those battalions of eager, sternly disciplined brass sections, drummers, and fly girls who turn halftime shows into well-oiled Vegas variety acts on steroids. Devon (played by Will Smith protégé Nick Cannon) is a cocky Brooklyn kid with a snare-drumming scholarship to (fictional) Atlanta A&T University. He can't read music (he lied on his application) and his attitude sucks, but he's the best natural drummer the college has ever had, so he quickly rises through the marching band ranks. The school year brings Devon the obligatory girlfriend (Zoë Saldana, smart and charming); clashes with his old-school band director (Orlando Jones); and well-earned redemption at the championship marching band showdown. No surprises here, but great chemistry all around, and a fantastic, positive role-model showcase for a musical form that has evolved far beyond the main street parades of Smalltown, U.S.A. --Jeff Shannon |
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| This was a film I missed when it came out. Don't even remember it in fact. A shame but the beauty of DVD is that you can pick up what you missed.
This is a fun little film with the old story of the kid with great musical talent who has nothing; get's his big break with a full scholarship to a university. Miles shows up expecting to be treated like royalty but ends up becoming the problem of the band. Extremely talented drummer with a bad attitude challenges and shows up the line leader. Who later learns Miles can't read music. It turns out that he lied to the music director and on his application. Rather then take his way out and study he gets an even bigger attitude which leads to him "showboating" during a band competition which ends in a fight between the two bands. He of course gets booted. Things look bad as the band directory faces a firing for refusing to adopt to the new music of today. The drum line leader forgets he used to love the sound of the line more then his playing and Miles faces loosing his scholarship and his girlfriend. A box arrives and it contains music from his estranged father to which Miles is surprised to music of his father. It gets him thinking and he goes to the drum line leader to get some help on an idea. They have a drum off and the line leader remembers his job and accepts the fact Miles is a better drummer but he points out to Miles that even though he is the best; the crowd can't hear him because they hear the band playing. He also works with Miles to help him learn to read Music. They collaborate and present their Music to the band director who thinks it's a great idea. The final showdown happens at the big competition to which there is a tie that must be settled with the drum lines. Miles gets his chance and this time he does not showboat. Overall it's a nice film if you like the music. The side stories are ok and they don't distract. However, I would have liked to have seen something with the father where Miles sends him music. Just seemed the right thing to do for me. There are extras and some music videos but they are are watch once and move on. |
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