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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
Twenty-five years after first bringing Broadway audiences
to their feet, the Tony Award-winning musical sensation “Dreamgirls”
comes to the big screen starring Academy Award® winner
Jamie Foxx (“Ray”), Beyoncé Knowles (“Austin
Powers in Goldmember”), Danny Glover (“Lethal
Weapon”), newcomer Jennifer Hudson, Tony Award winner
Anika Noni Rose (Broadway’s “Caroline or Change”)
and Eddie Murphy (“The Nutty Professor,” “Dr.
Dolittle”).
Set in the turbulent late 1960s and early ‘70s, “Dreamgirls”
follows the rise of a trio of women—Effie (Jennifer
Hudson), Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) and Lorrell (Anika
Noni Rose)—who have formed a promising girl group called
The Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they are discovered
by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx),
who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the
back-up singers for headliner James “Thunder”
Early (Eddie Murphy). Curtis gradually takes control of the
girls’ look and sound, eventually giving them their
own shot in the spotlight as The Dreams. That spotlight, however,
begins to narrow in on Deena, finally pushing the less attractive
Effie out altogether. Though the Dreams become a crossover
phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune
may be higher than they ever imagined.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Dreamworks SKG
Paramount Pictures
Release Date:
December 21, 2006
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