Fame
1980
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Fame is a movie that she might have enjoyed. It's about a dozen or so talented kids who enter New York's High School of the Performing Arts as freshmen and emerge four years later as future Freddie Prinzes and Benny Goodmans, Leonard Bernsteins and Mrs. Sewards.
Raw look at teen life more shocking than you might recall. Read Common Sense Media's Fame review, age rating, and parents guide.
81% Tomatometer 36 Reviews 69% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Young men and women audition for coveted spots at the New York High School of Performing Arts. Those who make the cut discover that...
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127 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. TVholic 1 October 2000. High school. Years and decades later, some look back on it with fondness, others with embarrassment.
May 16, 1980 · Fame: Directed by Alan Parker. With Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean. A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Fame is a 1980 American teen musical drama film directed by Alan Parker and written by Christopher Gore. Set in New York City, it chronicles the lives and hardships of students attending The High School of Performing Arts, from their auditions to their freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years.
Fame isn't only the best musical of the summer, it's one of the best films of any genre -- a fresh and funky, sassy and brassy, gutty and gritty, slick and smart piece of work. Full Review |...
Sep 23, 2009 · Why bother to remake "Fame" if you don't have clue about why the 1980 movie was special? Why take a touching experience and make it into a shallow exercise? Why begin with a R-rated look at plausible kids with real problems and tame it into a PG-rated after-school special?
Sep 24, 2009 · Alan Parker’s “Fame,” released in 1980, retained some of the hallmarks of edgy movies of the ’70s. Tackling subjects like racial conflict and homosexuality, it had a gritty urban flavor ...
This influential stage-school drama, which follows an ambitious number of students (eight main characters jostle for space) dreaming of the big time in their sanctuary from New York's mean streets...
