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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 16, 1980 |
Starring:
Eddie Barth, Irene Cara
Summary:
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Parker has made his visually charming film more than a study of talented and ambitious kids. One does see the difficulties they will have breaking into the arts, and the raw personal problem they share with unartistic teen-agers. But Fame goes deeper, into the quintessential problem of youth -- the painful process by which the society's accumulated culture is passed from one generation to the next [20 June 1980, p.17]
Alan Parker has come up with an exposure for some of the most talented youngsters seen on screen in years. There isn't a bad performance in the lot. The great strength of the film is in the school scenes -- when it wanders away from the scholastic side as it does with increasing frequency as the overlong feature moves along, it loses dramatic intensity and slows the pace.
The film is full of attractive young performers. And there is a low-keyed conflict between them and a faculty that is trying to discipline their exuberance without stifling their spirits. If the film had concentrated on that instead of on hokey melodrama, it might have been far more engaging and truer to life.
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Like Parker's earlier features, Fame is a stylistic self-advertisement. The locale has shifted, but one recognizes the identical false urgency and coy tumult. Parker seems destined to spend his career whipping up ephemeral picturesque frenzies. [20 June 1980, p.C2]
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