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The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Directed by Robert Townsend
Drama, Music · 2h 01m
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Cast
Robert Townsend
Michael Wright
Leon
Harry Lennix
Tico Wells
Diahann Carroll
Harold Nicholas
John Canada Terrell
Hawthorne James
Carla Brothers
Crew
- Director
- Robert Townsend
- Writer
- Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend
- Director of Photography
- Bill Dill
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Clarke
- Producer
- Robert Townsend, Loretha C. Jones
Details
- Release date
- 1991-03-29
- Runtime
- 2h 01m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox