If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got.
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Classical in form, earnest, character-led and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20267/10
I think what makes this film work, even now, is that it selected it's stars from a bunch of aspiring and talented individuals whom it was perfectly plausible to believe in. To like and dislike. It has something about it that offers hope, optimism and realism to people from a range of backgrounds whose skills with their feet, their fingers or their voices might well be the only thing saving them from a life of banality in parts of New York that couldn't have cared less if they lived or died. On that score, it also presents a certain transferability to other big cities in the world where mundanity is the currency and where just getting noticed - and not exploited - is an achievement. This centres around half a dozen characters - each with their aptitudes and each with their demons, and it also shows us just how vocational a talent for teaching is, especially when it is trying to develop an interest in the academic amongst the artistic and also of containing the artistic when it, frequently, gets out of control. This is also fairly groundbreaking in that it deals, quite casually but still potently, with issues of education, race and sexuality - and the hostility faced by people who do
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Cast
- Irene CaraCoco Hernandez
- Barry MillerRalph Garci/Raul Garcia
- Maureen TeefyDoris Finsecker
- Paul McCraneMontgomery MacNeil
- Lee CurreriBruno Martelli
- Gene Anthony RayLeroy Johnson
- Antonia FranceschiHilary Van Doren
- Laura DeanLisa Monroe
- Boyd GainesMichael
- Albert HagueMr. Shorofsky
Crew
- Alan ParkerDirector
- Christopher GoreWriter
- Michael SeresinDirector of Photography
- Michael GoreOriginal Music Composer
- Gerry HamblingEditor
- David De SilvaProducer
- Alan MarshallProducer
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