Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.
Category: Music
Music
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The Fantasticks
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter Luiss and Ben’s son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers’ interference. As the two youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the ‘feud’ by hiring a traveling showman to fake an abduction and allow Matt to ‘rescue’ Luisa.
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Salsa
At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years – Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: ” You don’t have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!”. Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family’s “secrets and lies” reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?
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The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple’s second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale–including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
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The King Is Dancing
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
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Manilow Live!
Barry Manilow in Concert, filmed in Nashville in 2000. Lots of oldies interspersed with material from the 80’s and 90’s. Also has an excellent tribute to Sinatra as well as songs from Manilows forthcoming (2000) Broadway stage show, “Harmony”.
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Take Me Home: The John Denver Story
John Denver achieved fame, fortune, and acclaim for his iconic country-pop music, but his sunny personality masked private pain and dark secrets that his celebrity could never heal.
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Out of Sync
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul’s girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman’s voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him.
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Devadoothan
Vishal Krishnamoorthy, a renowned music composer and singer, reminisces about his initial struggles and an unknown spirit that inspires him to compose songs.
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Refugee
The films tells the story of an un-named Indian Muslim, who helps illegal refugees from both India and Pakistan to cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film is attributed to have been inspired by the short story “Love Across the Salt Desert” by Keki N. Daruwalla.