The Sapphires (2012) 7/10

Starring : Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell
Director : Wayne Blair
Running Time : 99 mins

It’s 1968, and a quartet of female aboriginal singers, Gail (Mailman), Julie (Mauboy), Kay (Sebbens) and Cynthia (Tapsell) are discovered by Irish talent scout Dave Lovelace (O’Dowd), who convinces them to stop singing country and western numbers and to start singing soul music instead. Comparisons are drawn between them and The Supremes, and their popularity lands them a gig entertaining the troops in Vietnam.

This was a nice movie that manages to take true events and make them entertaining, largely due to the romantic relationship between O’Dowd and Mailman. Fans of Dreamgirls will enjoy this, as in many ways it is a better, far more rounded movie, though it doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of energy, something it could really have done with to keep it going towards the end.

You’ll like this if you liked : Dreamgirls