Sparkle (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 30, 2012
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Omari Hardwick & Ceelo Green | |
Performer: | Curtis Armstrong & Michael Beach | |
Directed by | Salim Akil | |
Edited by | Terilyn A. Shropshire | |
Screenwriting by | Mara Brock Akil | |
Composition by | R. Kelly & Salaam Remi | |
Photography by | Alicia Gbur | |
Story by | Howard Rosenman & Joel Schumacher | |
Produced by | Debra Martin Chase, T.D. Jakes & Curtis Wallace | |
Director of Photography: | Anastas Michos |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Funny, likable and watchable, with some nice performances, particularly from Bob Hoskins as a lovelorn older man.
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Guardian
Whitney Houston, in her final performance, plays the church-lady mother with teasing force.
Entertainment Weekly
[T]he music is terrific, handily trumping DREAMGIRLS with a mix of Curtis Mayfield tunes from the original and creditable R. Kelly Motown pastiches.
Sight and Sound
[T]he interplay among the characters pulsates and the dramatic confrontations are sufficiently charged...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Strongly natural performances and a likeable cast, plus a subtle examination of more serious themes, make it well worth seeing.
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Shadows on the Wall
Rating: 2/5 --
The plot of Sparkle fails to shine.
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The Sun (UK)
Low-budget with a subtle script and real, rounded characters.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
A talented young woman is torn between her dreams and her family in this musical. Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) has been blessed with a beautiful voice and a gift for songwriting, but she's afraid to perform her songs in public, in part because her mother Emma (Whitney Houston), a former entertainer whose career brought her nothing but heartache, refuses to allow her daughters to sing outside of church. But Sparkle persuades her older sibling Sister (Carmen Ejogo) to sing one of her tunes at a talent show, and the reaction proves that Sister has star quality and Sparkle can write potential hits. An ambitious would-be manager, Stix (Derek Luke), persuades Sparkle and Sister to form a singing group with their sibling Dolores (Tika Sumpter), but while the act clicks wit audiences, the sisters have to contend with their angry mother, Sister gets caught up in a destructive relationship with a short-tempered comedian (Mike Epps), and Sparkle finds herself falling in love with Stix. Based on the 1976 musical of the same name, SPARKLE proved to be the last major project for Whitney Houston, who died while the film was in post-production; it was also the first feature film for AMERICAN IDOL champion Sparks.
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- Sales Rank: 37,042
- UPC: 043396408074
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