1/13/2024 0 Comments Sparkle cast 2012Deborah Martin Chase, who produced this new version, had been working with Whitney Houston ( Sparkle executive producer and a co-star here) for over a decade to remake the film, and, sadly, it wound up being Houston's final project. The original 1976 movie was set in 1950s Harlem and starred Irene Cara as Sparkle and Philip Michael Thomas as her boyfriend/manager Stix. In fact, this isn't the first time Sparkle has hit the big screen. But also the stereotyped characters and well-worn plotlines. The great costuming and late-60s nightclub vibe. So much of what's right and wrong with Sparkle is packed in those opening scenes. Five minutes later the sisters are on a bus home, hoping to sneak in before their overprotective mom wakes up and realizes they've been gone. Sister does take the stage and belt out a vampy song, much to the delight of the men in the audience and the joy of her sister, Sparkle, who wrote it (well, thanks to Curtis Mayfield). One, dressed in a sexy silver dress, is getting ready to perform, and the other, dressed in a demure sweater and skirt, is begging her not to back out. It's 1968 Detroit, and we open with two young African American women in a nightclub. (Oh c'mon, as if that's any kind of spoiler). So we watch the familiar unraveling, shaking our heads at the screen over all the lost potential, all the unnecessary carnage. Why, why, why do women in musical girl groups ever try to find love? Haven't they seen the other movies? Don't they know that men will be their downfall? The Anderson sisters-Tammy (known as Sister, played by Carmen Ejogo), Dee (Tika Sumpter), and Sparkle (Jordin Sparks)-apparently haven't been warned.
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