Sparkle

Name: Sparkle
Released: 1976-4-7
Cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice

Sparkle

PG
1h 39m
1976

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Three talented sisters claw their way from the Harlem ghetto to stardom in the rock 'n' world of the 1950s, a world of fame, music and Sparkle. But even though they escape the ghetto, the sisters cannot escape its problems, and their dream of celebrity and success becomes a nightmare of jealousy and drugs in this powerful tale.

Director:

Sam O'Steen

Producer:

Howard Rosenman, Beryl Vertue, Peter Brown

Writer:

Joel Schumacher, Howard Rosenman

Cast:

Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood, Tony King, Beatrice Winde, Paul Lambert, Joyce Easton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

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Reviews

Los Angeles Free Press

Jacoba Atlas

Has all the shine of a badly cut rhinestone.

[An] uneasy marriage of cliched melodrama and music in an odd March of Time technique.

It's a rags-to-riches story that doesn't miss a stop along the well-trod ghetto-to-musical-charts path, but makes its journey with tuneful conviction.

Hackneyed, ho-hum 1976 feature about a black girl group, clearly modeled on the Supremes.

Drab as it is, Sparkle's worth renting for Lorette McKee's performance and the cast renditions of Mayfield's songs. But if you're going to buy anything it should be the soundtrack album.

January 28, 2019

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Additional Info

Genre:Drama
Release Date:April 7, 1976
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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Sparkle

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