Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time:
Distributor/Studio: Dreamworks Video
Director
Bill Condon brings
Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway
musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers
Effie (
Jennifer Hudson),
Lorrell (
Anika Noni Rose), and
Deena (
Beyoncé Knowles) are about to find out just what it's like to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show by ambitious manager
Curtis Taylor Jr. (
Jamie Foxx), the trio known as "the Dreamettes" is soon offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of opening for popular singer
James "Thunder" Early (
Eddie Murphy). Subsequently molded into an unstoppable hit machine by
Taylor and propelled into the spotlight as "the Dreams," the girls quickly find their bid for the big time taking priority over personal friendship as
Taylor edges out the ultra-talented
Effie so that the more beautiful
Deena can become the face of the group. Now, as the crossover act continues to dominate the airwaves, the small-town girls with big-city dreams slowly begin to realize that the true cost of fame may be higher than any of them ever anticipated.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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