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A Star is Born (1976)

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The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and cocaine, his music has lost its edge, and his performances have become painfully haphazard. One night, after a concert, he stumbles into a club where he sees a singing group fronted by Esther Hoffman

Sep 21, 2004

Warner Bros. Pictures

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The plot and characters must have seemed clichéd to audiences seventy years ago, and they haven't improved with age.

January 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Ms. Streisand has a great voice and a great stage presence, and she has made a number of good films in her career. For me, A Star Is Born is not one of them.

January 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

If only the Colonel had let Elvis play Streisand's John Norman, it might have been the camp classic closeted (very closeted) Streisand freaks insist A Star Is Born really is.

November 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Barbara Streisand. Is. A Star Is Born. And two-shots have never been so completely arbitrary.

November 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

An ego project for Streisand and then companion Jon Peters, or a director (Frank Pearson), who can't handle his leading lady. Either way: This remake, marred by a fake, overly sentimental ending, is only worth seeing for Streisand's singing.

November 20, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

The weakest of the 3 versions, this one is tolerable due to Streisand and Kristoferson's charisma and some of the songs; Streisand's comments offer some interesting insights.

September 24, 2005 Comment

hopelessly stuck in the bell-bottomed clichés of the '70s... hasn't aged well and isn't much fun to watch

June 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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July 30, 2002 Comment
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Audience Reviews for A Star is Born

Very good movie. As always Barbara Streisand has a phonoemenal voice and despite Kris Kristostofferson's hairyness and his drug and alchohol abuse it was a very good movie.

December 14, 2008
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Cassie Hill

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Barbra sings like an angel but this is a crass vulgar shadow of the classic Judy version. Stick with that one

August 6, 2007
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jay nixon

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