This terrifically satisfying film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical that wowed Broadway audiences 25 years ago follows the struggles and sorrows of a Motown girl group (a thinly disguised Diana Ross and the Supremes) as they rise to the top of the pop charts in the turbulent 1960s. Featuring a screen-shattering, Oscar and Golden Globe Award winning performance by newcomer (and American Idol hopeful) Jennifer Hudson, and a surprisingly nuanced (and Oscar nominated) turn by Eddie Murphy as the soul singer who gives the Dreamettes their first big break, "Dreamgirls is the entire musical package, a triumph of old school on-screen glamour, and we wouldn't want it any other way." (LA Times) More at dreamgirlsmovie.com
2006, color, 2 hours 10 minutes, USA
