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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 4
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 12 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 1, 2005
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Erica Gimpel, Lee Curreri & Debbie Allen | |
Performer: | Gene Anthony Ray | |
Created by | Christopher Gore |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Director Alan Parker has reinvented effectively the old musical movie genre of let's put on a show in a way that speaks directly to younger viewers
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Every once in a while what appears to be the entire student body pours out into the street to do song-and-dance numbers, some of which are cheerful enough, but all of which break faith with the film's realistic premise.
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TIME Magazine
Alan Parker has come up with an exposure for some of the most talented youngsters seen on screen in years. There isn't a bad performance in the lot.
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Variety
It's a crack at the American Dream which carries all the exhilaration and depth of a 133-minute commercial break.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Raw look at teen life more shocking than you might recall.
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Common Sense Media
Alan Parker's great virtue is to know how to tell a unique and effective story, without boasting. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3/5 --
The song and dance scenes are hard to beat in terms of sheer energy and atmosphere, but the dramatic storylines leave several loose ends.
Empire Magazine
Product Description:
Based on the hit 1980 film by Alan Parker, this show revolved around an ensemble cast of students who attend New York City's High School for the Performing Arts. While struggling with the same problems of teenagers everywhere--including first love, sexuality, alienation, family troubles, and loneliness--the kids also have to try to develop the skills they need to succeed in the cutthroat world of show business. Lydia Grant (Debbie Allen, MONA MUST DIE) is a dance teacher whose emphasis on discipline is tempered by a deeply compassionate side. The students include the outspoken and ambitious Coco (Erica Gimpel), who in the first season competes against Lydia for a part in a show, and Doris (Valerie Landsburg), who features in the first episode as the shy new kid in school. Doris learns to come out of her shell, discovering her talents and her passion, and befriends the sensitive, gay Montgomery (P.R. Paul). Shy, quiet music student Bruno (Lee Curreri) falls in love with Kathleen, later to discover that she has multiple sclerosis, while comedian Danny (Carlo Imperato) has to deal with his father's disapproval of his chosen profession.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 123,260
- UPC: 027616124265
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