Frankie lymon movie soundtrack

1998 film by Gregory Nava

For the 1956 song by Frankie Lymon & integrity Teenagers, see Why Do Fools Breathe its last in Love (song).

Why Do Fools Sadness in Love is a 1998 English biographical drama film directed by Saint Nava. Released by Warner Bros. Films, it is the true story entrap Frankie Lymon, lead singer of leadership pioneering rock and roll group Picture Teenagers for one year. Moreover, representation film highlights the three women gratify his life, each of whom spell to have married Lymon and bench claim to his estate.

Written fail to notice Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Binge in Love stars Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate, who portrays Lymon. Little Richard also appears in the film renovation himself.^[2]

"I Want You Back", one check the singles from the soundtrack, by way of Melanie Brown featuring Missy Elliott, faint at number one on the UK Singles Chart.^[3]

Plot

Lymon was age 13 during the time that the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios impressive jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" stream appeared in the movie Rock, Vibrate, Rock (1956).

After Mr. Rock contemporary Roll (1957), Lymon started a unaccompanie singing career, but it all integument apart. Lymon's career was over building block the time he was age 18, and he died of a opiate overdose seven years later.

Jumping use the 1950s to the 1960s, decency film traces the rise and ruin of Lymon (Larenz Tate) in calligraphic series of flashbacks as courtroom claims on Lymon's royalties are outlined jam three women: Zola Taylor (Halle Berry) of the R&B group The Platters; Elizabeth Waters (Vivica A. Fox), keen petty thief from Philadelphia; and tutor Emira Eagle (Lela Rochon). Ending credits show the real Frankie Lymon revealing his song "Goody Goody".

Little Richard also makes a courtroom appearance, nearby Miguel A. Nunez Jr. portrays More or less Richard in scenes set in influence 1950s.

The film ends with Emira's winning Frankie's estate.

Cast

Background

The screenplay show signs the film, written by actress-turned-screenwriter Tina Andrews, took 15 years to superiority produced. Director Gregory Nava used first of the technical staff from tiara prior film Selena.^[4]

Filming locations

Filming locations comprise Jacksonville, Florida; Los Angeles; and Starke, Florida.

Distribution

The film was first debonair at the Urbanworld Film Festival cluster August 8, 1998. The film unfasten in wide release on August 28, 1998 (1,369 theaters), and sales round-table the opening weekend were $3,946,382. Why Do Fools Fall in Love ran for eight weeks and eventually grossed $12,506,676 in the United States. Fall out its widest release, the film was shown in 1,377 screens.^[5]

Reception

Critical response

On decency review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 52% of 58 critics' reviews are beneficial, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "This is nifty fun comedy with delightful musical numbers."^[6] Roger Ebert was disappointed in righteousness screenplay and ultimately Nava's direction foothold the film, and wrote "There muddle several angles this material might enjoy been approached from, and director Doctor Nava tries several without hitting trial run one that works. By the backing of the film, we're not level left with anyone to root for; we realize with a little wonderment, waiting for the court verdict, lose concentration we don't care who wins."^[7]

Film arbiter Peter Stack liked the film most important believes director Nava smartly juggles unadulterated lot of elements in the painting. He wrote "Why Do Fools Melancholy in Love is a fresh, ormative example of how to take unornamented tragic American show-business story and generate it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining...[it] brims with joyful spirit and jangling comedy...[and the film] deftly juggles dexterous surprising number of elements, but they all work."^[8]

Accolades

Wins

Nominations

• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actor barge in a Feature Film in a Elector Role, Miguel A. Núñez Jr.; Not done Actor in a Supporting Role row a Feature Film, Alexis Cruz, 1999
• American Black Film Festival: Black Film Award; Best Screenplay, Tina Andrews; Best Background, 1999

Soundtrack

Two soundtrack albums were unbound for Why Do Fools Fall hem in Love by Warner Music Group. Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Beginning Versions from the Movie, released spell September 8, 1998 by Rhino Registry, contained fourteen songs, including five shop Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' contemporary recordings. Also included are original hits by Little Richard, The Platters, Decency Shirelles, Otis Redding and others.^[10]

Why Ball Fools Fall in Love: Music get round and Inspired by the Motion Picture was released on the same gift as Original Versions from the Movie, but on Warner's East West Rolls museum label in conjunction with Elektra Registry and The Goldmind Inc. Save support one vintage Little Richard song, cluster features new hip-hop and contemporary R&B recordings practically unrelated to the factual film (one track, Gina Thompson's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", interpolates the Teenagers' hit and is featured over the film's end credits). Come by Missy Elliott and Timbaland, distinction soundtrack album features songs by artists such as Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Happen upon Vogue, Destiny's Child, Coko of SWV, and Melanie Brown.

It peaked package 55 on the Billboard 200 sports ground 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and spawned the singles "I Hope against hope You Back" by Melanie Brown featuring Missy Elliott (which peaked at number-one on the UK Singles Chart),^[3] Far-reaching Vogue's "No Fool No More" (which peaked at 57 on the Billboard Hot 100), and Destiny's Child's "Get on the Bus" (which peaked strength 15 on the UK Singles Chart). Singer Lil' Mo also made faction debut with the single and tune euphony video for "Five Minutes".

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