Faith-Family Film Review: Fame – Rated PG
Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting
Fame— Ensemble drama with music follows a class of gifted students (most prominently Kay Panabaker, Asher Book, Naturi Naughton and Collins Pennie) and their dedicated teachers (among them Kelsey Grammer, Charles S. Dutton and Bebe Neuwirth) through four years at a New York City high school for the performing arts. Director Kevin Tancharoen’s remake of Alan Parker’s 1980 celebration of creative exuberance jettisons most of the original’s objectionable elements but, some enjoyable musical numbers aside, the results are mostly tepid. A scene involving suicide, a sexual situation, underage drinking, at least one use of profanity, and a half-dozen crude and a few crass terms. The A-III — adults. (PG) 2009
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