Jamie Foxx,
Beyonce Knowles,
Eddie Murphy,
Jennifer Hudson,
Danny Glover
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Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is... read more
Directed by: Bill Condon
Release Date: December 25, 2006
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jamie foxx,
jennifer hudson,
Eddie Murphy ,
Jamie Foxx ,
Jennifer Hudson ,
Anika Noni Rose
DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
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March 8, 2012Bill Condon directs an incredible cast in the movie version of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Let me say this before I say anything else: I was so stunned by the performances and musical numbers in this film that I literally had to tell myself to close my mouth. Jennifer Huds... read more
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August 15, 2011A beautifully well made film, with great performances, and proves Eddie Murphy is a good actor.
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June 9, 2011A very good film. A bit overrated in my opinion becuase 8 Academy Award nominations is very generous. However this film delivers on all levels. Great performances all around, emotion, brilliant cinematography, fantastic music....it's good. The music is definitely the highlight of... read more
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June 24, 2010I didn't like this, I thought it was boring, and I hated the songs, there was nothing I really liked about the movie so I can't give it anything but this. D
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June 9, 2010Enjoyable version of the Supremes rise. Good music and fine perfomances from everybody plus well paced direction make this highly watchable. Eddie Murphy is certainly better than he has been in years in the slop he usually makes and coasts through but he doesn't do anything extra... read more
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June 5, 2010Dreamgirls is the kind of big budget, flashy, brassy, Hollywood musical that hasn't been made for a while. The production value and art direction dazzels as does the show stopping numbers by the fabulous Jeniffer Hudson who steals the show. The music makes you want to dance in y... read more
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November 10, 2009I thought Eddie Murphy was quite good in this, he almost made up for the dire songs that were placed in the most stupid of moments, at one point I thought that they'd break into song to announce the need to urinate or something else as trivial. The sign of a rubbish musical, shou... read more
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October 25, 2008Great music, and strong performances. The story is a little contrived and what not, but it's still an enjoyable movie.
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September 1, 2008Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of 18-year-olds, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and... read more
Critic Reviews
May 13, 2009
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
January 3, 2007
Dana Stevens, Slate
Watching Dreamgirls on the big screen feels like an event somehow. Maybe it's the conviction and passion that the actors bring to their roles. Full Review
January 3, 2007
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dreamgirls is the entire musical package, a triumph of old school on-screen glamour, and we wouldn't want it any other way. Full Review
January 3, 2007
Albert Williams, Chicago Reader
Elegiac, filthy-minded, unsparing, and as deeply moving as you'd expect from any de facto story of Peter O'Toole's life. Full Review
December 30, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's a product that promises magic, and yet gives us nothing to live on. Full Review
December 29, 2006
Scott Foundas, Village Voice
With a star turn like [Jennifer Hudson's] at its center, a movie doesn't need too much more, but Dreamgirls has plenty to go around. Full Review
December 29, 2006
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Flaws and all, Dreamgirls is certainly a lot more watchable than other recent adaptations of Broadway musicals like Rent, The Producers and The Phantom of the Opera.
December 29, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Joy is defined as Dreamgirls, an ecstatic dose of pure top-down Motown tight-harmony effervescence that takes a hit Broadway musical about a Chicago girl group and turns it, miraculously, into a Holly... Full Review
December 29, 2006
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
It's fun. It's candy. With colorful costumes, often effervescent tunes (the original production's Henry Krieger wrote four new ones), it's a champagne cocktail. Full Review
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