Musicals (Subscribe)
The musical film genre have songs sung by characters interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to develop the characters and advance the plot.
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Dreamgirls (2006)
Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson seek their pop star dream and get their wish when they're picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy and Danny Glover
Hairspray
The Tony Award-winning Broadway production Hairspray comes to the movie screen sixteen years after the first show. The movie features new material as well as original material based on John Water's cult classic about star-struck teenagers on a local Baltimore dance show. A fantastic lineup with the likes of John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifa and Brittany Snow is in this comedy which delivers a fun and energetic musical.
Stomp the Yard (2007)
A troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
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