The Temptations
by Allan Arkush
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Actor: Charles Malik Whitfield, Christian Payton, D.B. Woodside, Leon, Terron BrooksDirector: Allan Arkush
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: David V. Picker
Producer: Deborah Edell Underwood
Producer: Helen Robin
Producer: Jay Benson
Producer: Otis Williams
Writer: Kevin Arkadie
Writer: Robert Johnson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of The Temptations
DVD Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great film. The best part of it is the music. The acting is surprisingly good.DVD Review: They suck
Summary: 1 Stars
This company is no longer selling on Amazon and I heard that via email from Amazon. They have refunded my money. All this before I could even file a claim. Amazon really is great and I am happy they have recognized and resolved the problem. Thanks Amazon! DVD Review: classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I am well pleased with my DVD of the Temptations.
The Temptations is the greatest and all time favorite groups of all times. Inspite of their obstacles and tragedies, they overcame many hurdles and struggles and kept it together for years to come.
The Temptations has been magnificient and a superb talented soulful vocal group of the 60's 70's, 80's, and 90's.
This movie gave us unforgettable soulful sounds and excitement in their performances. They gave to the music world hits after hits. They showed amazing talents and showmanship, in originality, and in versatile on stage.
The Temptations music will always live in our hearts and mind. They brought us countless songs, to enjoy and to dance by and to treasure over years to come.
I will always enjoy the music that the Temptations has given to us, for a lifetime of memories Their music is truly a classic.
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DVD Review: The Temptations
Summary: 5 Stars
I had seen the movie on TV and was so awed by it I had to have a copy for my library. Excellent movie. Lots of music.DVD Review: love this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband was watching this movie one night and I had no interest in it. I liked the Temptations but wasn't interested in a movie where the actors weren't the real guys. WAS I WRONG! I LOVE THIS MOVIE! My husband and I have a DVD copy and we watch it all of the time and still watch the movie when it is on television. The actors are excellent and although we know not everything is exactly the way it was, we still love it anyway. I cried at the end the first time I heard Smokey singing at Melvin's funeral. It was done so well. Leon is awesome as David Ruffin, as are the other actors. Love the singing and the dancing, love the way it is narrated, love the actresses who play the moms and wives. I highly recommend this movie to all music lovers even if you are not a die hard Temptation fan. My husband and I are always quoting lines from the movie now and love listening to Temptation CDs even though we were too young to know them in their prime. Temptations Forever.
Description of The Temptations
They were the rhythm and blues sensation five singers who created a sound and style that redefined the boundaries of popular song. But there was a price to be paid for their meteoric rise and when the pressures became to great to bear rivalries threatened to tear them apart forever. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 12/21/2004 Run time: 150 minutes Rating: NrConceived as a television miniseries, this portrait of the epochal Motown vocal group scores as one of the most detailed re-creations of the '60s pop milieu ever filmed. Told largely through the eyes of founding member Otis Williams (Charles Malik Whitfield), The Temptations portrays its protagonists as soul Everymen whose early triumphs closely followed, and helped expand, Motown Records' emergence as "the Sound of Young America," providing an inspirational fable for black Americans.
Inevitably, of course, the story is also a cautionary tale about the price of success for both the Temps and their mentor, Motown founder Berry Gordy (Obba Babatunde). With hit records and tours, Williams and his partners grapple with drugs, alcohol, depression, jealousy, and delusions of grandeur. In particular, the galvanic lead singer David Ruffin (Leon) serves as both a focal strength and potential destroyer for the group, as his ego combines with a mounting cocaine habit to create a monster. At the same time, Gordy's eventual decision to leave his and the label's home, Detroit, for Los Angeles marks a loss of innocence for the group and their label-mates. The film provides ample insider detail about how the former Ford assembly-line worker created and controlled his unique hit factory.
Based on the biography coauthored by Williams and former manager Shelly Berger, the project gets a vital boost from behind the camera, thanks to executive producer Suzanne DePasse, herself a former Motown exec, and director Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School). That lineage probably pulls some punches in terms of individual characters and Gordy's machinations, but it also affords The Temptations its convincing detail, as does the generous running time--a mixed blessing, due to the original two-part broadcast, which might have benefited from tightening for this video version. Giving the show its greatest kick are the group's original hits, performed and choreographed convincingly in lip-synched sequences. --Sam Sutherland
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