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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543225270
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 10496
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1991
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Get ready to be rocked to your soul by The Five Heartbeats! This Motown-flavored masterpiece is the story of five young friends drawn together by music. Their dream of success takes them from amateur nights in ghetto clubs to the pinnacle of show business success and personal tragedy.
Amazon.com:
Few things can be more noble than a wholehearted effort to tell the story of black secular music in America, especially through the eyes of a mid-20th century rhythm-and-blues vocal group breaking through race barriers to popular success. Comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats (1991) is one such ambitious effort. If its story frequently sags under epochal burdens, the film makes up for it with a surprisingly tough look at the music business and classy appearances by Diahann Carroll and hoofer Harold Nicholas. Townsend plays one-fifth of the titular act, whose collective life and times we follow from 1965 to the 1990s, through friendships, break-ups, and re-groupings. The director's script, cowritten with Keenen Ivory Wayans, is wobbly and short on good material for the women in the cast. But several of the male actors are quite strong, particularly John Canada Terrell as an original Heartbeats replacement. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - The Five Heartbeats
I had already had this movie, but was thrilled not only to get the movie but the soundtrack as well. Still one of the better musicals I have seen. It is a must have for any lover of black history on the group eras.
Rating: - It is still good entertainment.
I purchased the movie on DVD because I had it on VHS. It is entertaining and it took me back to the 1960's groups. It is definately one to collect.
Rating: - the five heartbeats
i have looking for this movie at reasonable price and i found it on amazon. i always find the movies that i cant find in stores on amazon
Rating:  - The Five Heartbeats
This dvd is one of my favorites. The video and audio quality was very good. I received this dvd in a timely manner considering I am currently working in Iraq. It took about 10 -14 days to get here. I was quite satisfied with the entire Amazon online experience,
Rating: - One of the best black themed musicals movies ever made
The Five Heartbeats is clearly one of the best black musicals ever made. The songs are catchy, it has heart and humor. Robert Townsend is clearly one of the most talnted black directors of our time and he proved it with this film. The strong performances from Leon,Towensend and the Oscar worthy Michael Wright make the film shine as bright as it did when released back in 1991.
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