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List Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 29 March, 1991 DVD Release : 22 January, 2002 |
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The Five Heartbeats description Few things can be more noble than a wholehearted effort to tell the story of black secular music in America, especially through the eyes of a mid-20th century rhythm-and-blues vocal group breaking through race barriers to popular success. Comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats (1991) is one such ambitious effort. If its story frequently sags under epochal burdens, the film makes up for it with a surprisingly tough look at the music business and classy appearances by Diahann Carroll and hoofer Harold Nicholas. Townsend plays one-fifth of the titular act, whose collective life and times we follow from 1965 to the 1990s, through friendships, break-ups, and re-groupings. The director's script, cowritten with Keenen Ivory Wayans, is wobbly and short on good material for the women in the cast. But several of the male actors are quite strong, particularly John Canada Terrell as an original Heartbeats replacement. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The best of a Genre... |
| From the moment i first saw the trailer, i knew then that this was destined to become a Soul Cinema Classic. This film has lived beyond my own expectations of what a film based in the music industry is & further should be, even moreso than one of my other favorites "Purple Rain." This film will stand alongside others based in the industry (such as "Grace of My Heart") of not only being highly entertaining, but telling the truth while it does!
The addition of the featurettes on the making of this classic only help to further enhance the veiwing for those who, like myself, enjoy knowing about the process it took to make such a work. In closing, thank you Mr. Townsend, Mr. Wayans & all the cast & crew for bringing such a fabulous piece of film into our lives...NOW WHERE'S THAT SEQUEL?! :-) |
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