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  • Genre: Musical
  • Release Date: 09/25/2009
  • Running Time: 107 mins
  • Director: Kevin Tancharoen
  • Cast: Asher Book, Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Kherington Payne, Collins Pennie, Walter Perez, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle
  • Producer: Mark Canton
  • Writer: Allison Burnett
  • Distributor: MGM
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Box Office

  1. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 25.0 mil, 60.5 mil
  2. Surrogates, 14.9 mil, 14.9 mil
  3. Fame, 10.0 mil, 10.0 mil
  4. The Informant!, 6.6 mil, 20.7 mil
  5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, 4.8 mil, 44.6 mil
  6. Pandorum, 4.4 mil, 4.4 mil
  7. Love Happens, 4.3 mil, 14.7 mil
  8. Jennifer's Body, 3.7 mil, 12.5 mil
  9. 9, 3.0 mil, 27.2 mil
  10. Inglourious Basterds, 2.7 mil, 114.4 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Fame

Baby, look at me. Gone are Leroy�s cornrows, short-shorts, and leg warmers: The anodyne adolescents in 25-year-old Kevin Tancharoen�s directorial debut (written by Allison Burnett) suggest not the charismatic, street-smart pupils at Performing Arts, but the Up with People squares. Don�t you know who I am? Like all good drama queens, the students in Alan Parker�s 1980 original, which unfolded during an unmistakably Koch-era New York, take up space (blocking traffic on West 46th Street) and disrespect authority (dropping f-bombs in class, smashing school property). They also do drugs, have sex (and abortions, if necessary), and stay up past midnight. The new class at P.A. is strictly PG, sharing a chummy coffee with the vocal instructor (Megan Mullally) who takes them on a karaoke field trip to Lucky Cheng�s, where not one drag queen is visible. Light up the sky like a flame. Though his gayness was awkwardly shoehorned in, carrot-topped Montgomery was at least undeniably out in Parker�s film. His closest analogue�many of the kids in the remake are race and/or gender inversions of the original characters�merely alludes to homo-leanings through emo, Efron-esque bangs and a slightly swish carriage. Members of the class of �80 struggled to stay in school despite homelessness and crime; the greatest crisis in �09 finds a student�s Sesame Street work-schedule affecting her GPA. The sanitized moppets in the new Fame sing the body generic. — Melissa Anderson

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