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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Musical Movies, Music Video Videos, Pop Music Videos, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Teenage, Dance, New York City, Personal Triumph, Showbiz, AFI Top 100 Movie Songs | | Starring | Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Richard Belzer, Meg Tilly, Barry Miller, Lee Curreri, Paul McCrane, Billy Hufsey, Maureen Teefy | | Director | Alan Parker | | Additional Music/Songs | Robert F. Colesberry | | Composer | Michael Gore | | Costume Designer | Ellen Mirojnick | | Director of Photography | Michael Seresin | | Editor | Gerry Hambling | | Featured | Laura Dean | | Producer | Alan Marshall | | Screenwriter | Christopher Gore |
Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; CD Included In Alan Parker's FAME, teenagers selected for New York City's High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in show business. This episodic tale follows savvy Coco (Irene Cara), timid Doris (Maureen Teefy), gay Montgomery (Paul McCrane), macho Raul (Barry Miller), soulful Bruno (Lee Curreri), and others as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity.
Cara, electric as the budding songstress Coco, shines brightest in the infectiously exuberant young cast. The film, which won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, overflows at each corner of its loosely unfolding narrative with inspired music and dance numbers that seem to burst forth spontaneously out of sheer irrepressible emotion. With FAME (later developed into a hit television series), Parker finds a happy medium between the wildly diverging tones of his previous two features, the goofy kids-as-gangsters musical BUGSY MALONE and the harrowing prison thriller MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, and in doing so creates an enjoyable, glittering portrait of guileless teenage ambition. Songs include:
"Fame"
"Red Light"
"I Sing the Body Electric"
"Dogs in the Yard"
"Hot Lunch Jam"
"Out Here on My Own"
"Is It OK If I Call You Mine?" Fame Reviews: "...It's a rousing, lively production, bursting out of the screen with talent and exuberance..."
-- Robe., Variety "...A jubilant, hugely entertaining movie....The cast is full of glowing newcomers, the score is emphatically upbeat..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Fame | List Price | $20.97 (You save $5.02) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  47092  | | CD Universe Part number | 7963231 | | Catalog number | 1000091943 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Sep 15, 2009 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 134 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled; With CD | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled; With CD |
Fame DVD Region [unknown]
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Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
Alan Parker Commentary
Audio Commentary: Class Reunion Commentary
Other: Fame Field Trip - A tour of the "famed" school and the folks who work there.
Fame Video Ballerina, Big Shot-Caller, Billy Elliot, Camp, Center Stage, Center Stage: Turn It Up, Children of Theatre Street, Company, Coyote Ugly, Dance Flick, Dreamgirls, Fame - The Complete First Season, Flashdance, Footloose, Footloose/Flashdance, Honey, In the Shadow of the Stars, Jazz in the Diamond District, King Creole, No Shame, Raise Your Voice, Rent, Save the Last Dance, Save the Last Dance 2, Step Up, Step Up 2 the Streets, Undiscovered, Yellow Purchase Fame Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Stephen Lynch - Live At The El Rey DVD (2004)
Fame film
 $11.49 
Combining his love of comedy and music has payed rich dividends for performer Stephen Lynch. Taking to stages across the country, Lynch arms himself with an acoustic guitar and works his way through a mirth-riddled set of comedic songs. His career trajectory sky-rocketed after appearances on various TV shows, and Lynch soon found his CDs in hot demand. But it's in the live arena that he truly excels, as illustrated by this release. Comfortably ensconced before a sizeable audience, Lynch lets rip on a number of subjects, with a variable musical backing that neatly hops between genres throughout. Among the tracks on offer are "Baby," "Drink You Pretty," "She Gotta Smile," "Craig," and many others.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Parental Advisory
| | Great Waltz CD (2006) Original Soundtrack
Fame review
 $12.25  
Lyricists: Forman Brown; George Forrest; Robert C. Wright.
Personnel: Fred Essler, Eric Brotherson, Frank Porretta, Lucy Andonian, Leo Fuchs, Anita Gillette, Wilbur Evans, Giorgio Tozzi (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Rory Guy.
| | Sail Away CDs (2006) Original Soundtrack
Fame DVD
$12.35 
Lyricist: Noël Coward.
Personnel: Elaine Stritch, Paul Okeefe, Grover Dale, Joe Layton, Noël Coward, Charles Braswell (vocals).
Photographers: Fred Fehl; Hugh Fordin.
Arranger: Peter Matz.
This two-fer CD set combines two albums associated with the Broadway musical Sail Away that were released on LP during the show's five-month run in 1961-1962, the original Broadway cast recording and a disc of the songs performed by the songwriter, Noël Coward. Sail Away, Coward's first musical for Broadway in more than 20 years, was set on a cruise ship traveling from New York through the Mediterranean and back. Elaine Stritch starred as Mimi Paragon, the cruise director, who falls in love with Johnny Van Mier (James Hurst), a younger man, and there was also a secondary romance between Nancy Foyle (Patricia Harty), a young woman traveling with her aunt, and a young man, Barnaby Slade (Grover Dale). The setting and the romances made for lots of musical opportunities for Coward, who was, in a sense, revisiting some of his favorite themes. He had first used the older woman/younger man plot in his first successful play, The Vortex, in 1924, and he was a past master at writing songs about the contrasts between tourists (or colonists) and natives in exotic climes (e.g., "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"). The best songs in his score were the witty ones, and they were very witty: "The Passenger's Always Right," "Useful Phrases," "You're a Long, Long Way from America," "The Customer's Always Right," and "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" Stritch, more a comedienne than a romantic lead (actually, there had been a romantic lead in the out-of-town tryouts, but then she was fired and her role merged into the comic one Stritch had been playing already), handles her share of these songs well, while she and the other lovers are adequate on the adequate love songs. The first disc concludes with two demo recordings of songs that were cut from the show, "This Is a Night for Lovers" and "Bronxvi
| | Harry Connick, Jr Harry On Broadway Act 1 CDs (2006)
Fame movie DVD
$15.89 
Track Listing of songs: DISC 1: Pajama Game, musical: Overture, The; Pajama Game, musical: Racing with the clock, The; Pajama Game, musical: A new town is a blue town, The; Pajama Game, musical: I'm not at all in love, The; Pajama Game, musical: I'll never be jealous again, The; Pajama Game, musical: Hey there, The; Pajama Game, musical: Sleep tite, The; Pajama Game, musical: Her is, The; Pajama Game, musical: Once a year day, The; Pajama Game, musical: Once a year day playoff, The; Pajama Game, musical: Her is, The; Pajama Game, musical: Small talk, The; Pajama Game, musical: There once was a man, The; Pajama Game, musical: Factory music / Slow down, The; Pajama Game, musical: Hey there, The; Pajama Game, musical: Steam heat, The; Pajama Game, musical: The world around us, The; Pajama Game, musical: Hey there, The; Pajama Game, musical: Think of the time I save, The; Pajama Game, musical: Hernando's Hideaway, The; Pajama Game, musical: The three of us, The; Pajama Game, musical: Seven-and-a-half cents, The; Pajama Game, musical: There once was a man, The; Pajama Game, musical: Hernando's jive, The; Pajama Game, musical: The pajama game, The; DISC 2: Thou Shalt Not, musical: Oh, my dear; Thou Shalt Not, musical: Can't we tell; Thou Shalt Not, musical: Such love; Thou Shalt Not, musical: I like love more; Thou Shalt Not, musical: My little world; Thou Shalt Not, musical: All things; Thou Shalt Not, musical: I need to be in love; Thou Shalt Not, musical: Oh! Ain't that sweet; Thou Shalt Not, musical: The other hours; Thou Shalt Not, musical: Take advantage; Thou Shalt Not, musical: Take her to the Mardi Gras;
| | Disney Greatest Love Songs CD (2008) (Import)
Fame video
$15.75
2008 collection of songs for the heart from those fine Disney films we all cherish. 30 sensational Disney classics featuring all original recordings from the films including 'True Love's Kiss' from the box office hit Enchanted as well as songs from Aladdin, Snow White, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid plus many more. EMI.
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| | Sister Act DVD (1992)
Fame review
$10.49
On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, from the new Sister Mary Clarence and her Vegas-style ideas on how to run the choir. A charming comedy and one of Goldberg's best movies.
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| | Standard Deviants: Cutthroat World Of Business 5 DVD (2004)
Fame DVD
$19.55
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| | Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue In The Key Of Flesh DVD (2008)
Fame movie DVD
$16.29
Though it was made in the new millennium, this horror film returns to the silent days of early cinema history. A mortal illness terrorizes a small town in PROMETHEUS TRIUMPHANT: A FUGUE IN THE KEY OF FLESH, but a doctor is able to save the residents with a surprising treatment. Even though his beliefs have rescued the townspeople, they still banish him, and his lover dies. With the help of a strange person, will the doctor be able to revive the beauty?
When his small hamlet of Birzirkenstadt is ravaged by a deadly plague, the young and rebellious Doctor Janick reveals a radical cure. But his revolutionary theories about life and death label him a heretic and he is rewarded with banishment. As Janick disappears into the wild with his secret love, Esmeralda succumbs to the deadly disease and the superstitious doctors are helpless to cure her. Enter a mysterious masked figure known only as the Creator who snatches Esmeralda's body from its grave and begins to conduct weird experiments...their objective: to bring her back from death's cold embrace.
| | Beziehungsweise-Live DVD (2009) (Import)
Fame video
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Fame film
$39.09
Sports and comedy collide in this touching anime tale about Ren Mihashi, a little-league pitcher whose teammates’ constant accusations of nepotism (his grandfather his head of the school) eventually convince him that he isn’t a good-enough athlete to have reached his position on his own merit. But when Ren enrolls in a new school, he gets the pick-me-up of a lifetime from an encouraging coach and a great roster of teammates. Together, they help Ren meet his full potential. Included in this set are the first 13 episodes of the series.
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| | Crazy As Hell DVD (2009) Special Edition; Steelbook
Fame review
$9.75
Unconventional psychotherapist Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) takes residence at Sedah State Mental Hospital where he will be filmed by documentarian Parker (John C. McGinley) for a film on his methods of non-medicinal approach to treatment. Dr. Adams' confidence is offset by the recent loss of his wife and young daughter. He soon meets his ultimate professional challenge, however, in the form of a stranger claiming to be Satan (Eriq La Salle). Satan is intelligent and insightful, and before long, Dr. Adams will find himself involved in a maddening game of role-reversal. An engaging psycho-thriller, CRAZY AS HELL was co-written by Jeremy Leven, based on his 1982 novel SATAN: HIS PSYCHOTHERAPY AND CURE BY THE UNFORTUNATE DR. KASSLER, J.S.P.S.
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| | Hells Angels On Wheels DVD (2009) (Import) Phantom
Fame DVD
$20.95
NTSC/Region 0. When he loses his job, gas station attendant Poet (Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson) falls in with a rough band of Hells Angels who terrorize Northern California in a hellraising frenzy of parties and gang fights. Choppers, drugs, sex, murder and mayhem ensue as Poet and gang leader Buddy (Adam Roarke) head down a dark road to danger. From acclaimed cult director Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) with cinematography by the legendary L szl˘ Kov cs (Easy Rider, Paper Moon) and music by Stu Phillips (Battlestar Gallactica, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). Kam.
| | Yum Yum Yum DVD (2006)
Fame movie DVD
$28.49
Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking and other enthusiasms of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other great cooks.
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