This remake of the highly successful 's film follows a new generation of dreamers. Why is Fame rated PG? Run Time: minutes. They arrive on the big day, nervous and excited to prove they have the right stuff.
Of 10, applicants, make the cut as freshmen. From there the film rushes through four years of high school with a cast so large it is difficult to really get to know any of the kids. Alice Kherington Payne is a dancer whose parents have been paving the way for her career from the time she was four or five years old.
Her confidence and expectations are evident. Luckily she seems to have the talent to make it happen. Down the hall in theatrical arts, a timid student Kay Panabaker stands at the front of the room and performs a faltering rendition of a love song. Each passing semester sees some students soar while others stumble as they face new experiences. Their abilities are tested when one teacher Megan Mullally takes them out of the safety of the high school and pushes them to perform in front of a real audience at a nightclub.
Other teenagers learn life lessons after getting drunk, facing unwanted sexual advances, and being repeatedly rejected at cast calls. Asher Book as Marco. Kelsey Grammer as Joel Cranston. Collins Pennie as Malik.
Kherington Payne as Alice. Paul McGill as Kevin. Debbie Allen as Principal Simms. Naturi Naughton as Denise. Kay Panabaker as Jenny. Paul Iacono as Neil Baczynsky. Megan Mullally as Fran Rowan. Bebe Neuwirth as Lynn Kraft. Reviews This one ain't gonna live forever.
Roger Ebert September 23, Dancers in "Fame": They're gonna learn how to fly. Now streaming on:. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase. Thank you for your support. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. We display the minimum age for which content is developmentally appropriate. The star rating reflects overall quality. Learn how we rate.
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Several scenes feature brief arguments between teachers and students or between students about dance techniques. Several theatrical recitations feature either a teen boy or girl shouting, crying, or pounding on a wall.
Song lyrics refer to murder by gunfire: One line says, "See a dead body, you want to keep running. A teen boy spits on a stage floor and rubs the sole of his shoe in it. In a meat market, a butcher picks up a raw beef loin from a cooler and carries it to a meat case we see bones and red meat of the loin briefly. A teen boy does a tap dance number over lunch tables, spilling food and turning over tables.
LANGUAGE 4 - 9 scatological references, 3 anatomical references, 11 mild obscenities, name-calling cowards, trash, mess, dummy, chick, honky-tonk, stuffy, whore, wasted , stereotypical comments about actors, hip hop and rap stars, teens, parents, women, classical composers, modern composers, Germans, Blacks and whites, 4 religious profanities, 18 religious exclamations.
Teen boys and girls drink beer in three party scenes, we see adults and teens drinking cocktails and beer, many tables include full wine glasses and bottles of wine in a restaurant scene, a teen boy films a teen girl drinking alcohol from a bottle in a brown paper bag, she falls off a park bench, stands on the bench, pours out the alcohol and the scene ends, a man takes two bottles of beer from a refrigerator, drinks from one and hands the other to a teen girl she does not drink , and two teen boys talk about drinking shots of liquor at a party.
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