Cabaret

Name: Cabaret
Released: 1972-2-13
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper

Cabaret

PG
2h 0m
1972

93%

age 15+

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Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher (Michael York) --whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But Sally's small, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be crushed under the boot of the Nazis as Berlin becomes a trap from which Sally's German friends will not escape in this ground-breaking, blockbuster film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret.

Director:

Bob Fosse

Producer:

Cy Feuer

Writer:

Jay Presson Allen, John Kander, Fred Ebb

Cast:

Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper, Joel Grey

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic.

Reviews

4Columns

Michelle Orange

I was an instant convert to Fosse's Cabaret: it was and is nothing but the movie for me. It concentrates Fosse's interest in stories about style-its power to define and transform, to dominate and subdue.

The main characters' inebriated antics never seem to amount to anything potent or moving or simply involving.

The bright, manic glee is countered by small moments of stunning brutality, moments that increase in frequency, size, and viciousness as the film progresses.

Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are electrifying; director Bob Fosse's choreography and the camera work are scintillating.

If brash Minnelli seems a mite too talented for the Sally Bowles character, it really doesn't matter: she is, quite simply, magnificent in this role.

June 12, 2020

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Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

Influential '70s musical features sex and mature themes.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this Academy-Award-winning musical is chock full of sexual innuendo and frank talk about casual sex, both hetero- and homosexual. Main characters smoke and drink throughout the film while living decadent, if impoverished, lives. The movie is set against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power in Germany, with a couple scenes of violence related to Nazi conflicts. The main character has an abortion.