Fame updates itself in a new movie
Fame returns to the big screen with a re-imagining of the award-winning 1980 classic.
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Updated: September 25, 2009 1:06 PM
Almost 30 years ago, a movie centred on a group of students and their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts became a hit and received two Academy Awards, a spin-off TV series and a musical which has played in London’s West End since 1995.
Fame now gets a re-imagining on the big screen with an (almost) all new cast and music and dancing that reflects the talents of a new generation that is exposed to reality shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.
The only returning star of the original movie and TV series is Debbie Allen, who played Lydia Grant and has since been very influential in both TV and movies, most notably directing a number of TV series including the Cosby spin-off, A Different World and choreographing five consecutive Academy Awards shows.
In the new movie, she plays school principal Angela Simms.
Other notable stars in the new movie include Kelsey Grammer reuniting with his former Cheers wife Bebe Neuwirth and Megan Mullally (Will and Grace) as instructors.
Most of the young students are played by relative newcomers, as it was in the original movie.
Bruce Willis must investigate a murder in a futuristic society where human interaction has been replaced by idealized robots in Surrogates.
The year 2017 is a future in which humans live in near-total isolation, never leaving the safety and comfort of their homes, and only communicating with their fellow man through remotely-controlled robotic bodies that serve as “surrogates,” designed as better-looking versions of their human operators.
Because people are safe all the time and damage done to a surrogate is not even felt by its owner, it is a peaceful world free from fear, pain, and crime. The murder case Willis is investigating grows more complicated, however, when several humans are murdered because their surrogates are destroyed.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are back on the big screen in Trailer Park Boys 2: Countdown to Liquor Day.
They are about to get out of jail and Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. But when they arrive back at the park, they find it’s not the same old place as the park supervisor, Jim Lahey, is now sober and has big plans for the trailer park.
However, Julian has other ideas and not only does he destroy the park improvements (as well as Jim’s sobriety) but his own business fails and the boys must return to what they know best—breaking the law.
The Paramount Theatre is giving you another chance to see probably the most highly acclaimed movie of the year—The Hurt Locker. It is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the technicians whose job is to diffuse improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
And finally, the Capitol Theatre is giving you another chance to see one of the most acclaimed romantic comedies in recent memory. (500) Days of Summer is an offbeat story of a young man’s courting of a young woman over one-and-a-half years. It shows next Thursday at 7 p.m. as part of the West Kelowna Film Festival.
Rick Davis is the manager of the Capitol Theatre in West Kelowna.
capitol_wes@
landmarkcinemas.ca
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