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Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Die Wurzeln des Rock'n'Roll

Originaltitel: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
  • 1998
  • R
  • 1 Std. 56 Min.
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6,4/10
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Vivica A. Fox, Halle Berry, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate in Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Die Wurzeln des Rock'n'Roll (1998)
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThree women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.

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    • Gregory Nava
  • Drehbuch
    • Tina Andrews
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Halle Berry
    • Vivica A. Fox
    • Lela Rochon
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    • Regie
      • Gregory Nava
    • Drehbuch
      • Tina Andrews
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Halle Berry
      • Vivica A. Fox
      • Lela Rochon
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  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 2 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Halle Berry
    Halle Berry
    • Zola Taylor
    Vivica A. Fox
    Vivica A. Fox
    • Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters
    Lela Rochon
    Lela Rochon
    • Emira Eagle
    Larenz Tate
    Larenz Tate
    • Frankie Lymon
    Paul Mazursky
    Paul Mazursky
    • Morris Levy
    Pamela Reed
    Pamela Reed
    • Judge Lambrey
    Alexis Cruz
    Alexis Cruz
    • Herman Santiago
    David Barry Gray
    David Barry Gray
    • Peter Markowitz
    Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
    Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
    • Young Little Richard
    • (as Miguel A. Nunez Jr.)
    Clifton Powell
    Clifton Powell
    • Lawrence Roberts
    Lane Smith
    Lane Smith
    • Ezra Grahme
    Ben Vereen
    Ben Vereen
    • Richard Barrett
    Paula Jai Parker
    Paula Jai Parker
    • Paula King
    Marcello Thedford
    Marcello Thedford
    • Drug Dealer
    Norris Young
    • Jimmy
    Little Richard
    Little Richard
    • Self
    J. August Richards
    J. August Richards
    • Sherman
    Jon Huertas
    Jon Huertas
    • Joe Negroni
    • Regie
      • Gregory Nava
    • Drehbuch
      • Tina Andrews
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    7mattymatt4ever

    Very entertaining!

    "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is somewhat flawed and takes quite a lot of artistic liberties, but it's always fun to watch. Larenz Tate isn't entirely convincing as Frankie Lymon--I guess they just cast him because he's real short. The concert scenes and TV appearances where he sings are noticeably lip-synched and look pretty cheesy. But acting-wise Tate did a fine job. Obviously, they didn't really delve into his drug addiction, to keep with its light-hearted feel. So we don't get to experience the heavy drama of Lymon's short life. The actresses were good--Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox and Lela Rochon. Their performances were equally effective and amusing. The great Little Richard has some spirited cameos. He definitely brought the mood of the film to an all-time high. I just wish he could've been in it for longer than 10 minutes. The whole movie basically concentrates on the romantic-comedy portions of Lymon's life--some true, some fabricated. There were some dramatic moments, but they occur mostly towards the end. But I got a lot of laughs and the film just has a fitfully satisfying upbeat tone. Of course, I LOVED the music. I have to admit that was one of the main reasons I enjoyed it so much.

    "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is a moderately loose portrayal of Lymon's life, but it makes great entertainment.
    9apocalypse later

    Entertaining delight!

    The filmmakers know you've heard this tale before - true life chronicle of a young singing star's rise and tragic fall - and so they wisely downplay the standard bio trappings and instead focus on a raucously entertaining ride through Frankie Lymon's woman troubles. The smart screenplay revolves around the court battle of Lymon's three wives (yes, three!) over song royalties, leading to vivid (and often humorously contradictory) flashbacks of their lives with the singer. Larenz Tate is magnetic playing the many different sides of the ever-changing lead character, but the film ultimately belongs to Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox and Lela Rochon as the wives. Each is allowed to shine as the trio portrays 30 years of changes in the women's lives, with Fox drop-dead hilarious as the most outrageous of the three. There's beautifully detailed '60s-era cinematography, sets, costuming and musical numbers, plus a side-splitting turn by Miguel Nunez as a young Little Richard. Major issues (such as '60s race relations) are barely glanced at, but what this film lacks in depth, it makes up for ten-fold in entertainment value. A winner!
    broadfoot

    Nothing Special

    "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" is really just another average rock star biography. Larenz Tate is great as Frankie Lymon, as are Halle Berry, Vivica Fox and Lela Rochon as the three "wives" locked in a battle over his estate, but the film is way overlong. The title is certainly appropriate. For most of his career, Lymon was a habitual drug user and was at times abusive to many of the women who loved him. It seemed nobody who stood in his way was safe, especially that poor little dog he accidentally dropped out of an apartment window. When he died in 1968, many of his fans and friends were shocked at first, but then later they probably realized that he had paid the expected price for his lifestyle.

    I bought this one in a previously-viewed movie bin at my local video store, but now I think I will return it. I don't think it's worth watching more than once.

    Rating: **
    jlacerra

    Why Do Three Fools Fall in Love

    Other commentators seem to feel this is, or should have been, a movie about the life of Frankie Lyman. However, as the title indicates, it is really about three women who fell in love ... with a guy named Frankie Lyman. As the movie brings home fairly early, there is not much about Frankie to love. He is portrayed as a shallow, self-centered fool, with as little understanding of the music business as of the women he scams into being his wives.

    Did Frankie have raw talent? Of course he did. Did Frankie do anything to develop this raw talent into an enduring musical career? No evidence of that. So much for Frankie. Larenz Tate plays him fairly well on stage, and rather flat off stage. We are not given a clue as to what the attraction may have been.

    And, since two of the women were relatively unaware of his celebrity status when they were first taken with him, and the third had a celebrity status of her own, we expect the movie to answer the title question. The women do not entirely succeed in this, but they are terrifically watchable while they try.

    Halle Berry is great as Zola Taylor, singer with the Platters. Viveca Fox is almost as good as the home girl who turns hooker to support Frankie, and Lela Rachon is perfect as the goodie-two-shoes last wife, a God-fearing and educated working woman.

    The music scenes are good, and the courtroom scenes are outrageously unrealistic.

    This would have been a better movie if they had not specifically based the story on Lyman, but only alluded to him. In this manner, the Hollywoodization of the story would have been less noticeable. Unfortunately, realizing that such a course would inevitably preclude using the Lyman hits, they chose to make this a triography of the wives, and allow them to play off Tate's weak Lyman persona.

    All in all, a good couple of hours of enjoyment that is not too compelling. When it was over, we found ourselves asking, "Why DID these three fools fall in love?"
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    Frankie Lymon Dies Again

    Frankie Lymon died of a drug overdose in 1968.As a big one hit wonder with his song "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" Lymon might have received some royalties from the record, but didn't. When three former wives hear a version of the song done by Diana Ross,they want to sue for royalties but first each of the three women must win a court case to prove who was the real and legal wife of Frankie Lymon. The movie "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" is a shoddy and disrespectful look into the life of Frankie Lymon. The movie is truly about these three women trying to win the royalties of the song, not to prove they really loved Frankie Lymon. It is bad enough that Hollywood makes a movie about a black male celebrity that Hollywood always brings up the details of Lymon's drug use and points to him for the audience that he is a loser after his singing days are over. We never get a true look at Frankie Lymon and his life.Where did the movie fail in one big detail? Lymon was not as short as the actor who portrayed him ,the talented Larenz Tate,he grew up to over six feet tall.His singing voice changed of course,he couldn't sing those sweet songs of his youth,but he had a decent voice in his adult years. But no one wanted the grown up Frankie Lymon.They wanted this little kid with the falsetto voice,not the adult Frankie Lymon and he couldn't get noticed in the new R&B market that came to pass in the sixties. His story ,and the story of his former group the Teenagers,was done quite well in a PBS documentary about the group called "I Promise To Remember".This was shown several years ago and it is worth while to look at about what happen to the group ,where they are now(where they were at the time of the broadcast),and and what happened to Frankie in truth.It is a well done program. The movie is not,however.Filled with profanity,the women come off as bitter uneducated jerks only going for the money.The film and the film makers in essence then to degrade the subject as a three timing drug taking failure.The film lowers itself then as the wives complain about Frankie and start the feminist cant about men in general and Frankie in particular.It doesn't bother the filmakers that Lymon's real life family has to watch him being dragged thru the mud and embarrassed and that they have to have him and themselves disgraced in this fashion. The three women got thankfully very little after in the end and the viewers of this film receive the same,very little.Frankie Lymon was not perfect,he was no saint.But this film disgraces him ,just like Bird did to Charlie Parker.In the end of the film we see the real Lymon singing "Goody-Goody" on a TV show.It is the only glimpse of the real Lymon in the movie.But after this film Frankie Lymon shall be looked at in one way and one way only,as a tragic disgrace.

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    • Wissenswertes
      When Tina Andrews wrote the original script, the part of Frankie Lymon was first offered to Michael Jackson.
    • Patzer
      When the scenes changes to Lamberton Prison in 1985, Diana Ross' version of "Why Do Fools" is more than once referred to as a new hit, when in fact, it was released in 1981.
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      Emira Eagle: Maybe there were three separate Frankies, and each of us got a piece.

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Why Do Fools Fall in Love/A Merry War/Your Friends and Neighbors/Dance with Me/Blade (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Why Do Fools Fall in Love
      Written by Frankie Lymon and Morris Levy

      Performed by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

      Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company/EMI Records UK Ltd.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 28. August 1998 (Vereinigte Staaten)
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      • Englisch
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      • Stahl House, Case House 22 - 1635 Woods Drive, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA
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      • Warner Bros.
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      • 12.461.773 $
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      • 3.946.382 $
      • 30. Aug. 1998
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