Therefore we cannot award our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal to this movie. A remake of a 1976 movie that originally starred Lonette McKee and Irene Cara, this new Sparkle, which finished filming last Thanksgiving, also stars Derek Luke, Mike Epps and Cee Lo Green, and chronicles the challenges faced by a group of singing sisters once they hit it big. Sparkle likes Stix, who sings with an all-male R & B group and wants to work in the recording industry. And the violence will make some women viewers as well as others uncomfortable due to physical abuse to a character. ![]() ![]() There are consequences to the decisions and, as Houston’s character says so well, “You can follow your dream and face certain heartbreak, or you can relinquish worldly, sensual folly and recommit to using your gifts to serve God.” This is one of the nice themes of the film, that all decisions contain consequences, either good or bad.ĭespite some nice spiritual scenes in the movie there is strong use of language, the use of drugs, and sexual references which are a bit much for a family movie. Soon the temptations are many for the sisters and this is where decisions must be made. I must admit that the clothes and music took me back to the sixties as I watched this film and the filmmakers capture the period nicely. He was portrayed by Tony King in the original film and Mike Epps - who also portrayed Black Doug in The Hangover - in the remake. The film stars Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, Cee Lo Green, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Tamela Mann, and Omari Hardwick. Satin Struthers is the main antagonist in the 1976 film Sparkle, and the 2012 remake. Sparkle is 15 and never been kissed until Stix (Philip Michael Thomas) steals a few while she’s getting the laundry off the roof. They go behind their mother’s back where they live in Detroit in the late sixties and meet an agent who begins to find them bookings all over the city. 1h 38min Age rating PG Production country United States Director Sam OSteen Sparkle (1976) Watch Now Rent 3. Sparkle is 2012 musical drama which is a remake of the 1976 film of the same name. Sparkle, the quintessential good girl, adores her older sister. Sparkle is a terrific song writer and Sister is a talented soloist. She was a talented singer herself but wants her daughters to avoid the mistakes she made. But she shines with a screen presence in this movie as she is a protective Christian mother when it comes to her daughters Tammy, called Sister, Delores who is called Dee, and Sparkle. Together, they perform the soul-stirring songs that Sparkle pens. ![]() (Whitney Houston), yet encouraged by the handsome and ambitious Stix (Derek Luke), Sparkle forms a trio with her sisters (Tika Sumpter and Carmen Ejogo). Sadly, the things she warned her daughters about in this film had a part in her recent death. Sparkle is a timeless story of the bonds of family, the trials of success and the power of music. In Whitney Houston’s last film she ironically plays a woman named Emma who had beaten substance abuse and raised a family despite a teen pregnancy.
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