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Mean Girls, like 2023’s The Color Purple, is a reminder of Hollywood’s ongoing taste for self-cannibalism. Not content merely to take a known property and send it to the stage as a musical, the industry has taken the play, re-made it as a movi...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-01-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Musical/Comedy
Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Cast: Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’I Cravalho, ...
Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge is a rigorously accurate historical account of events that occurred during the period between 1899 and 1900 in Paris' infamous Moulin Rouge nightclub. Luhrmann's meticulously researched motion picture uncovers several s...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-05-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: MUSICAL/ROMANCE
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, ...
What do Alistair Sim, Albert Finney, George C. Scott, Jim Carrey, Patrick Stewart, Bill Murray, and Michael Caine (among others) have in common? They have played the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas C...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Musical
Director: Brian Henson
Cast: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, ...
The Muppets is a rare family film likely to appeal more to parents than to their offspring. Although it's true that most kids today know a thing or two about Jim Henson's creations (the movie's premise - that they have vanished into obscurity since...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY/MUSICAL
Director: James Bobin
Cast: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, ...
Consider this possibility: a romantic comedy with no nudity, no sex, and no kissing. In fact, there aren't even any declarations of love. The closest the female character comes to admitting her feelings is saying that she could have danced all n...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, ...
In 1992, Walt Disney Pictures, riding a wave of euphoria generated by its recent animated successes, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, tried to do something that was met by critics with skepticism: revive the live-action musical. Filmm...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-04-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Lerner, Robert Duvall, ...
Nine represents director Rob Marshall's second big-screen musical spectacle. His previous effort, Chicago, won an Oscar; although Nine is likely to win its share of praise, it probably won't come close to achieving the same level of acclaim. Alth...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, ...
A couple of minor notes for today...First, to clear something up, the October 1 "ReelThought" was not intended to be a jab at Roger Ebert. It was a jab at Flightplan, which I believe to possess a plot that is too absurd for even the most blasé ...
Oliver Twist has never been one of my favorite Dickens novels, so perhaps that’s part of the reason why I’m lukewarm about Oliver!, the stage musical-turned-Oscar-winning motion picture adaptation of the book. It’s an uneven film with a...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "G" (Violence)
Genre: Musical/Drama
Director: Carol Reed
Cast:
The traditional movie musical may not be dead, but it's on life support, a victim of the changing taste of movie-goers. Once is an effort to provide a musical that works for a modern audience by grounding the situation in reality and cutting out th...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL/DRAMA
Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova