The Five Heartbeats

UPC: 024543225270

Format: DVDMultiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen

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Few things can be more noble than a wholehearted effort to tell the story of black secular music in America, especially through the eyes of a mid-20th century rhythm-and-blues vocal group breaking through race barriers to popular success. Comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats (1991) is one such ambitious effort. If its story frequently sags under epochal burdens, the film makes up for it with a surprisingly tough look at the music business and classy appearances by Diahann Carroll and hoofer Harold Nicholas. Townsend plays one-fifth of the titular act, whose collective life and times we follow from 1965 to the 1990s, through friendships, break-ups, and…

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List Price: $9.98
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Actors: Robert Townsend Michael Wright Leon Harry Lennix Tico Wells
Size: 7.1000" x 5.4200"
Weight: 0.3300 lbs.
Language: English, English, English