Dreamgirls (2006) 8/10

Starring : Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Danny Glover, Sharon Leal
Director : Bill Condon
Running Time : 125 mins

Curtis Taylor Jr (Foxx) is a lowly car salesman who seizes on the opportunity to make it big when he signs up singing group the Dreamettes and offers to represent them, but when he decides to promote backing singer Deena Jones (Knowles) over lead singer Effie White (Hudson), the group suffer their first split and go their separate ways, with Deena continuing representation with Curtis and Effie finding herself a single mother, unable to pursue her singing career.

This is a nice movie, filled with beautiful musical tributes to the periods and styles the movie covers through its fast progression through the early sixties to the late seventies. Hudson is wonderful in her first acting job, and sparkles on screen, while Murphy provides some much needed comic relief in this hard tale of betrayal and eventual reconciliation.

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