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Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:29
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: This is a fun comedy with delightful musical numbers.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The hilarious and mostly historical musical life of 1960's teen idol Frankie Lymon. Tate plays Lymon, the object of every teenager's affection, who has managed to marry three different women at the... The hilarious and mostly historical musical life of 1960's teen idol Frankie Lymon. Tate plays Lymon, the object of every teenager's affection, who has managed to marry three different women at the same time. [More]
Starring: Larenz Tate, Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon
Starring: Larenz Tate, Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Little Richard
Director: Gregory Nava
Director: Gregory Nava
Screenwriter: Tina Andrews
Producer: Stephen Nemeth, Paul Hall, Mark Allan
Composer: Stephen James Taylor
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Reviews for Why Do Fools Fall In Love
This biopic is soulless, underwritten, over-acted and, worse, just plain dull.
Larenz Tate is terrific recreating the excitement of Frankie's stage presence.
A celebration of pop fantasies, a boyish rascal with a helium voice, and three pretty fools who fell in love with him.
A fresh, enlightening example of how to take a tragic American show-business story and make it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining.
Though Nava's soapy directing style makes Fools watchable enough in a campy way, the film's unsophisticated nature undermines its better qualities.
Jampacked with rock glamour and exploitation, joy and horror, that keeps showing its subject at different angles, through different eyes.
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