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Five Heartbeats
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5.75
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Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon
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Directed by:
Robert Townsend
Written by:
Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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1991 |
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DRAMA
MUSICAL
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US |
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120 |
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Rise and fall of a pop group. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| | A disappointment, after a promising start. The young black writer-director-actor, Robert Townsend, made an entertaining lampoon of the film industry's attitude to black people in his first feature, Hollywood Shuffle (1987). Here he turns his attentions to satirising how black acts were treated by the pop industry of the 60s. Once again, he has elicited energetic performances, but this time the screenplay is a compendium of showbiz cliches. Overlong, grossly sentimental and with a depressingly primitive attitude to women, it makes the movies of Cliff Richard look like the last word in sophistication. | | |
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