Director Gregory Nava. Tina Andrews. Halle Berry Vivica A. Fox Lela Rochon. Top credits Director Gregory Nava. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Vivica A. Miguel A. Nunez Jr. Norris Young Jimmy as Jimmy. Little Richard Self as Self. August Richards Sherman as Sherman. Gregory Nava. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In the mids, three women each with an attorney arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town.
Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. That's true even of Frankie, who is missing a fair amount of the time. What approach might have worked? Hard to say. Maybe the whole thing should have been seen exclusively through Frankie's eyes, as a kid who has his 15 minutes of fame at an early age and then dines out for the rest of his life on other people's memories.
That would have meant jettisoning the whole court case and its flashbacks, but the court stuff doesn't work anyway. Maybe straight chronology would have been a better idea, allowing Frankie to be the focus, and allowing us to follow his moves more clearly from one woman to the next and back again.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Larenz Tate as Frankie Lymon. Halle Berry as Zola Taylor. Vivica A. Fox as Elizabeth Waters. Lela Rochon as Emira Eagle. Roger Ebert August 28, Now streaming on:. Many were too young to sign contracts and their parents, scarcely knowing what it was all about, signed for them. A million-seller or a string of dismal failures could follow.
Either way, the group was soon back in the ghetto, tossed aside like an empty cigarette packet. The Teenagers made a greater impact than most but their case-history was typical of the era and their origins were not unusual. This quarter, variously known as The Couple de Villes or The Premiers, exercised their vocal chords among the hallways of the drab, five-storey monoliths on th Street. They also attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High where Frankie Lymon first asked to sing with them.
Born in Washington Heights on 30th September , Lymon was raised in a ramshackle apartment with half a dozen relatives including a sister and three brothers. Their father sang with The Harlemaires and encouraged his sons to sing in a junior gospel group of the same name.
Howie died of pneumonia before he could record and while Frankie learned to play bongos in a family mambo group he was quickly brutalised by his environment — hustling at six, working in grocery stores at ten and smoking reefers before he started grade school. In he encountered The Premiers who were practising their harmonies in the Stitt auditorium where Lymon also went to school.
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