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

Sparkle

PG
1h 39m
1976

17%

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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

TOMATOMETER®

17%

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

The crowded look of the film helps to compensate for the Joel Schumacher script, which appears to be no more than a skeleton.

December 2, 2023

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El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

Sparkle is watchable because the music by Curtis Mayfield is very good, and the ladies, even though they don't have much, at least nostalgically evoke the grace, style, and power that The Supremes had in the past decade. [Full review in Spanish]

August 3, 2023

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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.

August 16, 2017

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