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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900651455
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages:English Original Language French Original Language Spanish Original Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 22, 2003
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1980
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
This early effort by director Alan Parker is lively but jagged as it follows four students through their years in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Rather predictably, the kids fall into four clearly defined stereotypes: brazen, gay and hypersensitive, prickly, shy. Fame makes up for a disjointed presentation with a lot of heart and a great soundtrack (for which it won two Academy Awards). The hopes and disappointments, failures and successes of these teens are fodder for emotional scenes and exuberant dancing in the streets. It also turned out to be the first of many imitators and spawned a popular television series. (It was the breakout film for the short-lived feature-film career of Irene Cara, who sang the title song.) --Rochelle O'Gorman
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Fame helped to launch the 1980s on a tide of aspiration, creating a successful television series, kick-starting the leg-warmer industry and inspiring us all with the idea that with talent, a lot of hard work, plenty of suffering and luck, anybody might, one day, become a star. Nostalgia inevitably endows Fame with its own golden glow for anyone in the region of 40. And as we drown in the karaoke-by-numbers of today's cynical television talent shows, its touchingly innocent quality makes for a poignant and telling contrast.
In truth, director Alan Parker's film is a collage of the disciplines on offer at New York's High School of Performing Arts. The characters are sketchy totems for the emotional and domestic conflicts that drive their dreams--Leroy, Doris and friends needed the television spin-off to give them substance--but Parker is brilliant at conveying the intensity and heartache of their collective journey, from the paralysing nerves of the auditions to the strain of maintaining a rounded education alongside the development of performance skills and the ultimate thrill of graduation. By the end, thanks to the familiarity of the thudding disco soundtrack, you really do want them all to "live forever".
On the DVD: Fame scores all over again on DVD with its widescreen format and a thumping soundtrack: the moment when the kids burst out onto the street and stop the traffic is a bit of 1980s cinema magic. Alan Parker leads the class reunion commentary, helped by many of the cast. The film is clearly still important to them all. Other extras include a visit to today's school (hardly changed in philosophy or the passion of its real-life students), a vintage featurette and face-to-face interviews which basically recycle the commentary. --Piers Ford
Rating:
- To be honest, i was a bit disapointed.
I bought this film on a whim because it was cheap in a shop, though looking forward to watching as i had heard it was a great film. But when i watched it i was quite disapointed. Not a huge amount happens, and i would have liked to have seen more singing and dancing. Also the storyline isn't great, they had too many main characters and therefore there wasnt enough time to form an attatchment to the characters or to develop they're story further. Altough it was a plesant watch, i wouldn't be in a ... Read More
Rating: - Dissapointing at best
I rented this film with expectations that if nothing else it might be quite good fun. It wasn't. It's not the worst film I've seen but it's the kind of thing that should have gone straight to video rather than into the cinemas.
What is so wrong with the film I hear you ask? OK here goes:
1. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen - truly woeful
2. An attempt to have a 'serious' storyline that in the end is completely unbelievable.
3. Too many characters that ... Read More
Rating:
- One of the worst movies I've ever seen
Well, I bought this movie thinking that it would be great as it's meant to be one of the classics and has great reviews on Amazon. However, while watching the movie I just couldn't wait it for it to end!
It was based on some people who go to some singing, acting and dancing school, but the problem was that there was no real storyline. At times it would seem as though it was starting to develop one but it never did. I thought the movie was a complete waste of time - I could probably make ... Read More
Rating:
- Second to none
This movie which I went to see at the cinema on its original release in 1980 (possibly 1981), was for me a great film then and its a great film now. Sure its a little dated in parts but thats when you look at the technology and the clothing. There was no Internet, no CD's no walkmans, no ipods but disco was still about and rap music wasn't around so yeah it was different time but the energy from the film allows you to ignore all that and just breath in all the talent on show within the film. Looking ... Read More
Rating: - A brilliant movie
Fame is a brilliant movie. Why? The storyline attached to it, is an accurate and realistic portrayal of what reality is like for a group of students in a performing arts school over a course of four years.
The message the movie conveys that is not an easy to achieve stardom, unless you demonstrate sheer dedication and commitment in achieving the goals. The movie shows that the fortunes are mixed for various characters. The issue of stardom is really well tackled. I found certain scenes of ... Read More
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Fame [1980]
starring: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi
directed by: Alan Parker
directed by: Alan Parker
Our Price: 86,466.60
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900651455
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 22, 2003
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1980
Related Items:
- Grease [1978]
- Footloose [1984]
- Flashdance / Footloose / Pretty In Pink [1984]
- Flashdance (Special Collectors Edition) [1983]
- Flashdance [1983]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
This early effort by director Alan Parker is lively but jagged as it follows four students through their years in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Rather predictably, the kids fall into four clearly defined stereotypes: brazen, gay and hypersensitive, prickly, shy. Fame makes up for a disjointed presentation with a lot of heart and a great soundtrack (for which it won two Academy Awards). The hopes and disappointments, failures and successes of these teens are fodder for emotional scenes and exuberant dancing in the streets. It also turned out to be the first of many imitators and spawned a popular television series. (It was the breakout film for the short-lived feature-film career of Irene Cara, who sang the title song.) --Rochelle O'Gorman
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Fame helped to launch the 1980s on a tide of aspiration, creating a successful television series, kick-starting the leg-warmer industry and inspiring us all with the idea that with talent, a lot of hard work, plenty of suffering and luck, anybody might, one day, become a star. Nostalgia inevitably endows Fame with its own golden glow for anyone in the region of 40. And as we drown in the karaoke-by-numbers of today's cynical television talent shows, its touchingly innocent quality makes for a poignant and telling contrast.
In truth, director Alan Parker's film is a collage of the disciplines on offer at New York's High School of Performing Arts. The characters are sketchy totems for the emotional and domestic conflicts that drive their dreams--Leroy, Doris and friends needed the television spin-off to give them substance--but Parker is brilliant at conveying the intensity and heartache of their collective journey, from the paralysing nerves of the auditions to the strain of maintaining a rounded education alongside the development of performance skills and the ultimate thrill of graduation. By the end, thanks to the familiarity of the thudding disco soundtrack, you really do want them all to "live forever".
On the DVD: Fame scores all over again on DVD with its widescreen format and a thumping soundtrack: the moment when the kids burst out onto the street and stop the traffic is a bit of 1980s cinema magic. Alan Parker leads the class reunion commentary, helped by many of the cast. The film is clearly still important to them all. Other extras include a visit to today's school (hardly changed in philosophy or the passion of its real-life students), a vintage featurette and face-to-face interviews which basically recycle the commentary. --Piers Ford
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- To be honest, i was a bit disapointed.I bought this film on a whim because it was cheap in a shop, though looking forward to watching as i had heard it was a great film. But when i watched it i was quite disapointed. Not a huge amount happens, and i would have liked to have seen more singing and dancing. Also the storyline isn't great, they had too many main characters and therefore there wasnt enough time to form an attatchment to the characters or to develop they're story further. Altough it was a plesant watch, i wouldn't be in a ... Read More
Rating:
- Dissapointing at bestI rented this film with expectations that if nothing else it might be quite good fun. It wasn't. It's not the worst film I've seen but it's the kind of thing that should have gone straight to video rather than into the cinemas.
What is so wrong with the film I hear you ask? OK here goes:
1. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen - truly woeful
2. An attempt to have a 'serious' storyline that in the end is completely unbelievable.
3. Too many characters that ... Read More
Rating:
- One of the worst movies I've ever seenWell, I bought this movie thinking that it would be great as it's meant to be one of the classics and has great reviews on Amazon. However, while watching the movie I just couldn't wait it for it to end!
It was based on some people who go to some singing, acting and dancing school, but the problem was that there was no real storyline. At times it would seem as though it was starting to develop one but it never did. I thought the movie was a complete waste of time - I could probably make ... Read More
Rating:
- Second to none This movie which I went to see at the cinema on its original release in 1980 (possibly 1981), was for me a great film then and its a great film now. Sure its a little dated in parts but thats when you look at the technology and the clothing. There was no Internet, no CD's no walkmans, no ipods but disco was still about and rap music wasn't around so yeah it was different time but the energy from the film allows you to ignore all that and just breath in all the talent on show within the film. Looking ... Read More
Rating:
- A brilliant movieFame is a brilliant movie. Why? The storyline attached to it, is an accurate and realistic portrayal of what reality is like for a group of students in a performing arts school over a course of four years.
The message the movie conveys that is not an easy to achieve stardom, unless you demonstrate sheer dedication and commitment in achieving the goals. The movie shows that the fortunes are mixed for various characters. The issue of stardom is really well tackled. I found certain scenes of ... Read More
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
