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Summary: Loved the movie...
Review: ...but why are you guys selling it for so much?
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Summary: Doesn't stray too far from known facts
Review: Back in 1967, Frankie Lymon gave an interview with Ebony magazine about his life. Around the early 1990s, Rhino records did a very complete bio of Frankie in the liner notes to a Frankie Lymon's greaters hits CD (an excellent buy in itself, I may add). The screenplay seems to be based on those two sources and if so, it's pretty close to life. The scene where Frankie (Lorenz tate) tells Zola (Halle Berry) why he uses drugs is key to understanding this phenomenon. A great film.
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Summary: Fools in Love-Great Acting
Review: Didn't know much about Frankie, except that he was a bigamist. The acting is great! It is worth having in your library.
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Summary: Musical question ironic in musician's history
Review: Fine ensemble work by Vivica A. Fox, Halle Berry and Lela Rochon highlight this biopic...Through Frankie Lyman's (Larenz Tate) meteoritic rise and devastating fall, he meets and falls in love with three different women, each claiming to be the real Mrs. Lyman...The end result is courtroom drama (including a cameo by one of Lyman's real-life contemporaries, Little Richard) peppered with flashbacks...Love and pain abound, but the ultimate irony lies in the movies bittersweet ending...
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Summary: One of my favorite movies....ever
Review: I don't know what to say. I just absolutely loved this movie. It was hard though, because I couldn't choose which wife Frankie really loved. Usually, i don't believe this to be possible, but maybe Frankie did love all of them. You'll have to find out for yourself. Despite all he did wrong, i still felt bad for Frankie. The end was bittersweet, but I loved it.
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Summary: I thought all the actors were great !
Review: I enjoyed seeing Larenz Tate as Frankie Lymon because I love biographies and I especially LOVE music. I saw " Why Do Fools Fall In Love" four times the first week thatit came out. I just couldn't get enough. All the characters seemed real and very believable. I bought the VHS video as soon as it went on sale. -Janet
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Summary: Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
Review: I have had this movie for a long time..It's got music from the 50's and 60's..My mother loves it..This is the tragic story of Franky Liman who could have had a great career if drugs had not entered his life...Franky had three wives who are in court trying to prove that they are the real wife of Liman..This movie has alot of flashbacks..funny in some parts..Cameo by Little Richard..
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Summary: Overall content
Review: I have never heard of Frankie Lymon before this movie, sure I heard "Why do fools fall in love" but only by Diana Ross, and "Little Bitty Pretty One" by the Jackson 5. But the musical talent of Frankie Lymon had me bouncing in my seat. The film does decieve the viewer on how old he was, and at what point he started using drugs but there can never be any mistake of the boy's voice.I'll admit that I never cry at movies, 2 days after seeing this film and purchasing the CD "The Greatest Hits of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers", I sat on my couch and cried for this man and his tragic ending. I listen to at least one of his songs everyday now.
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Summary: The movie was magnificent,I thouroughly enjoyed it
Review: I loved Lorenz Tate acting and his three wives especially Vivica Fox who is my ideal. I would love to be in the movie buisness to become a sucessful actress just as she had accomplished.
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Summary: A surprisingly good flick, love the time period...
Review: I must say when I saw this film when it was first released in theaters, I wasn't sure if I should expect much. As a big fan of doo wop and the early Motown era of music, I was immediately attracted when I saw the trailer an' I love movies that capture a time like the '50s and the '60s for all their glamour and excesses. But this movie actually did more that that. It is a partly-factual partly-fictional account of the life of singing sensation Frankie Lymon who penned the incredibly-infectious bouncy number that serves as the film's title. While the movie naturally chronicles his life from young man on the streets of the inner city singing to his rise as popular teen idol performing shows with the Big Leagues to his fall out of favor in the industry and his disturbing descent into drug addiction and lowlife status. What sets it apart from the traditional bio-pic is the way the story is told; through the accounts of three women battling in court all claiming to have been the widow of Lymon and the rightful heir to the remainder of his fortune. It is often hilarious to hear each woman giving their accounts and seeing contradictory flashback scenes played out. Halle Berry and Vivica A. Fox are terrific in their roles as would-be wives of Lymon, but, if you ask me, Larenz Tate is the real star of the movie. Whether he has the physical likeness or not, this young man plays his heart out in this role and should be given props for it. Coming off'a role as drastically different as his part as teen-age thug in 'Menace II Society' he really shows his range. With a great soundtrack to boot, this movie is very entertaining and worth checking out.
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