Fame [with Original CD Soundtrack Sampler] [Blu-ray]

Dominic Bugatti Director: Alan Parker, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Eddie Barth

Overview

Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where talented teens train for show-business careers. The film concentrates on five of the most gifted students: singer Irene Cara, actors Paul McCrane and Barry Miller, dancer Gene Anthony Ray, and musician Lee Currieri. More so than the subsequent TV series Fame, the film emphasizes the importance of keeping up one's academic achievements in this specialized school. The faculty includes no-nonsense English teacher Ann Meara, erudite musical instructor Albert Hague, and martinet dance teacher Debbie Allen. Of the film's cast, Ray, Currieri, Allen and Hague were carried over to the TV version of Fame, which premiered in 1981. The score for the film version of Fame was honored with an Academy Award.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/26/2010
UPC:	0883929077465
Original Release:	1980
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:13:00
Sales rank:	18,973

Special Features

Class reunion commentary with branching video highlights and featuring director Alan Parker and co-stars Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Gene Anthony and Maureen Teefy; Vintage featurette on loation with Fame; Fame field trip visits the school that inspired the movie; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eddie Barth	Angelo
Irene Cara	Coco
Lee Curreri	Bruno
Antonia Franceschi	Hilary
Boyd Gaines	Michael
Albert Hague	Shorofsky
Maureen Teefy	Doris
Tresa Hughes	Mrs. Finsecker,Mrs. Finsecker
Steve Inwood	François Lafete
Paul McCrane	Montgomery
Anne Meara	Mrs. Sherwood
Joanna Merlin	Miss Berg
Barry Miller	Ralph
Jim Moody	Farrell
Gene Anthony Ray	Leroy,Actor
Debbie Allen	Lydia
Richard Belzer	M.C.
Frank Bongiorno	Truck Driver
Nancy Gianzero	Nancie
Bill Britten	Mr. England
Billy Hufsey	Actor
Eric Brockington	Plump Eric
Nicholas Bunin	Bunsky
Cindy Canuelas	Cindy
Laura DeLano	Dancer
Steve Hollander	Drama Student
Michael DeLorenzo	Dancer
Aaron Dugger	Dancer
Darrell Kirkman	Richard III
Meg Tilly	Dancer
Sarah Malament	Dance Accompanist
Frank Oteri	Schlepstein
Leslie Quickley	Towering Inferno Student
Jonathan Strasser	Orchestra Conductor
Louis Venosta	Dancer
Anthony Evans	Musician
Michael Gore	Composer

Technical Credits

Christopher Gore

Alan Parker	Director,Director
Alan Marshall	Producer,Producer
Irene Cara	Director
Lee Curreri	Director
Eddie Barth	Director
David DeSilva	Producer
Christopher Gore	Screenwriter
Arthur Bloom	Sound Effects
Rusty Coppleman	Sound Effects
Jay M. Harding	Sound Effects
Michael J. Kohut	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Preceded by Saturday Night Fever and followed by Footloose and Dirty Dancing, Fame is one of the best films focused on dance as a metaphor for success and maturation. Director Alan Parker, showing unusual restraint, shepherds a heartwarming story of rough New York teenagers who grow up while attending a performing arts high school. Their talent at dance enables them to transcend their backgrounds, their sometimes terrifying social milieu, and their own shortcomings. It's a vision of ethnic and social harmony achieved through effort at a craft that in some ways parallels youth sports movies. Dancer-singer Irene Cara is the star, and the film launched her (short-lived) singing career. The music and the dancing are spectacular, helping to overcome a story that, despite a few directorial risks, is fairly predictable. Fame is a well-made feel-good movie.