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Dreamgirls (2006)
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Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical film jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006, with a nationwide release on December 25, 2006 and a home video release on May 1, 2007. Dreamgirls won three awards at the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2007, including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, and won two Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards. The film adaptation of Dreamgirls, which had been in development at various times during the 1980s and 1990s, stars Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, and Eddie Murphy. The film also features Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal, and Hinton Battle. Produced by Laurence Mark, Dreamgirls was written and directed for the screen by Bill Condon, screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Chicago, working from the original Broadway book by Tom Eyen and the Broadway songs by Eyen and Henry Krieger. Four new songs, composed by Krieger with various lyricists, were added for this film. Jennifer Hudson, an American Idol alumna who made her film debut in Dreamgirls, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Effie White.
As in the original stage musical, Dreamgirls is broken up into two acts: the first taking place from 1962 to 1965, and the second taking place from 1973 to 1975.
Act I:
In 1962 Detroit, Michigan, an amateur African-American girl group known as The Dreamettes enters a talent competition at the Detroit Theater. Backstage, the three girls — lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose) — meet Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx), an ambitious Cadillac dealer with plans of breaking into the music business. Placing himself as their manager, Curtis arranges for the Dreamettes to tour as backup for chitlin' circuit R&B star James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy), by striking a deal with Marty (Danny Glover), Jimmy's manager.
Hoping to help Jimmy and the girls cross over to mainstream audiences, Curtis starts Rainbow Records ("The Sound of Tomorrow"), a record label based in his car dealership's office. He then makes Effie's brother, C.C. (Keith Robinson), his head songwriter. When Rainbow's first single fails after a white pop group releases a cover version, Curtis, his sidekick Wayne (Hinton Battle), and C.C. turn to payola. By paying the right people, they manage to get Jimmy and the Dreamettes to the top of the charts and into gigs at both the Apollo Theater and high-end supper clubs. Off-stage, Effie quickly becomes infatuated with the slick-talking Curtis while Jimmy, a married man, begins an adulterous affair with an equally lovesick Lorrell.
Marty grows weary of Curtis's plans to make Jimmy's image and sound more pop-friendly and eventually walks out on Jimmy. However, when Jimmy bombs in front of an all-white Miami Beach supper club audience, Curtis shifts his attention back to the Dreamettes. Feeling that Effie's voice is too "special" (read: black) and her figure too large to attract white audiences, Curtis appoints the slimmer and softer-voiced Deena as the lead singer of the Dreamettes. Effie, feeling betrayed, is hurt by this revelation, but C.C. is able to convince her to go along with Curtis' plan.
With the aid of new songs and a more glamorous image, Curtis and C.C. transform The Dreamettes into The Dreams, a top selling pop act whose popularity comes to rival that of The Beatles by 1965. However, Effie does not take kindly to being reduced to Deena's backup and begins acting out when Curtis's affections also turn towards Deena. Effie misses rehearsals for the Dreams' Las Vegas debut in order to visit a clinic, where she learns she is pregnant. Once Effie makes it to Las Vegas, she finds that Curtis has replaced her with Rainbow's secretary, Michelle Morris (Sharon Leal). Despite her emotional appeal to Curtis, Effie is left behind as Deena Jones & the Dreams - as the group is now known - push on without her.
Act II:
Seven years later, Effie is a depressed welfare mother, and her career in music is over due to alcoholism. She and her eight-year-old daughter Magic (Mariah I. Wilson) live alone in the burnt-out inner city of 1973 Detroit with only Effie's father Ronald (Alexander Folk) to look in on them. On the other hand, Rainbow Records has moved to Los Angeles where it prospers with Deena Jones & the Dreams and many other pop acts. Wanting to expand his empire into film, Curtis plans to have an unwilling Deena, now his wife, star in a blaxploitation musical version of Cleopatra. Hoping that the struggling film project will never get off the ground, Deena begins secretly meeting with other studios to take a part in another film.
Though still part of the Rainbow roster, Jimmy Early's star has long faded, and Curtis has little interest in revitalizing his career. Unsatisfied with both his wife Melba (Dawnn Lewis) and his long-term mistress Lorrell, Jimmy turns to drugs for affection. Meanwhile, C.C. continues to reach out to Effie, who stubbornly ignores the letters and money he sends. Eventually, Effie swallows her pride and, with Marty as her manager, returns to singing and secures gigs at a small Detroit club run by Max Washington (Ken Page).
In 1974, Rainbow Records hosts a tenth anniversary TV special. Midway through his set, Jimmy breaks down onstage and launches into a wild funk number, culminating in him dropping his pants on live TV. Curtis resultantly terminates Jimmy's contract, and Lorrell, weary of their eight-year affair, leaves Jimmy behind as well. Some time later, Jimmy dies of a heroin overdose.
Angry over Jimmy's death and frustrated with Curtis's attempts to "drain the soul" out of his music to create a "new sound" (disco), C.C. walks out on Rainbow Records and heads back to Detroit and to Effie. The two siblings reconcile at a wake for Jimmy and work together to produce Effie's comeback single, "One Night Only". Just as the record begins gaining radio play in Detroit, however, Curtis strikes. Using payola, he forces radio DJs to play a disco cover of "One Night Only" by Deena Jones & the Dreams instead of Effie's original, and the Dreams' version becomes a major hit.
Curtis has also learned of Deena's covert meetings with other film producers and asserts his control over his wife. Rebuffed, Deena sneaks into Curtis' office, where she discovers evidence of Curtis' payola schemes and finds a copy of Effie's version of "One Night Only". She calls Effie and C.C., who arrive at the Rainbow offices with Marty and a lawyer. As Deena and Effie reconcile, Curtis works out a deal with the lawyer to avoid being reported to the FBI for payola: Rainbow Records will fund a new label for C.C., which will allow Effie's record national distribution. Curtis then confronts Deena, only to find that Effie's victory has inspired Deena to leave him and make it on her own.
As a result, Deena Jones & the Dreams give a farewell performance at the Detroit Theater. At the conclusion of the concert, Effie joins Deena, Lorrell, and Michelle onstage and the reunited Dreams give one final performance of their signature song, "Dreamgirls", with Effie singing lead. As the concert ends, Curtis notices Magic in the front row and realizes that he is the girl's father.
Cast:
Jamie Foxx as Curtis Taylor, Jr. Based upon Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr., Curtis is a slick Cadillac dealer-come-record executive who founds the Rainbow Records label and shows ruthless ambition in his quest to make his black artists household names with white audiences.
Beyonce Knowles as Deena Jones. Based upon Motown star Diana Ross, Deena is a naive, sheltered girl who allows Curtis to transform her into the Dreams' lead singer and Rainbow's biggest star.
Eddie Murphy as James "Thunder" Early. "Jimmy" Early, inspired by R&B/soul singers such as James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and Marvin Gaye, is a raucous performer on the Rainbow label whom Curtis attempts to repackage as a pop-friendly balladeer.
Danny Glover as Marty Madison. Jimmy's original manager before Curtis steps into the picture, Marty serves as both counsel and confidant to Jimmy, and later to Effie as well.
Jennifer Hudson as Effie White. Inspired by Supremes member Florence Ballard and soul singer Etta James, the plus-sized Effie is a talented yet temperamental singer who suffers after Curtis, the man she loves, replaces her as lead singer of the Dreams with Deena and later drops her altogether.
Anika Noni Rose as Lorrell Robinson. Lorrell, inspired by Supremes member Mary Wilson, is a good-natured background singer with the Dreams who falls deeply in love with the married Jimmy Early and becomes his mistress.
Keith Robinson as C.C. White. Inspired by Motown vice president, artist, and songwriter Smokey Robinson, Effie's soft-spoken younger brother C.C. (Clarence Conrad) serves as the main songwriter for first the Dreamettes and later the entire Rainbow roster.
Sharon Leal as Michelle Morris. Michelle, based upon Supremes member Cindy Birdsong, replaces Effie in the Dreams and becomes C.C.'s love interest.
Hinton Battle as Wayne. Wayne is a salesman at Curtis' Cadillac dealership who becomes Rainbow's first record producer and Curtis' henchman.
Dreamgirls also features supporting performances from Mariah I. Wilson as Magic, Effie's daughter; Yvette Cason as Deena's mother May; Ken Page as club owner Max Washington; and Alexander Folk as Ronald, Effie and C.C.'s father. Cameo appearances in the film are made by John Lithgow and John Krasinski as a film producer and his screenwriter, Jaleel White as a talent booker at the Detroit Theater, Dawnn Lewis as Jimmy's wife Melba, and Loretta Devine, who originated the role of Lorrell on Broadway, as a jazz singer in Max Washington's club who sings "I Miss You Old Friend".
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