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In the mids, three women each with an attorney arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared.
During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three widows come together and establish their own bond.
The story of three very different women Rated R for language and some sexuality. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Goofs When the scenes changes to Lamberton Prison in , Diana Ross' version of "Why Do Fools" is more than once referred to as a new hit, when in fact, it was released in User reviews 35 Review.
Top review. Frankie Lymon Dies Again. Frankie Lymon died of a drug overdose in As a big one hit wonder with his song "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" Lymon might have received some royalties from the record, but didn't.
When three former wives hear a version of the song done by Diana Ross,they want to sue for royalties but first each of the three women must win a court case to prove who was the real and legal wife of Frankie Lymon.
The movie is truly about these three women trying to win the royalties of the song, not to prove they really loved Frankie Lymon. It is bad enough that Hollywood makes a movie about a black male celebrity that Hollywood always brings up the details of Lymon's drug use and points to him for the audience that he is a loser after his singing days are over.
We never get a true look at Frankie Lymon and his life. Where did the movie fail in one big detail? Lymon was not as short as the actor who portrayed him ,the talented Larenz Tate,he grew up to over six feet tall. His singing voice changed of course,he couldn't sing those sweet songs of his youth,but he had a decent voice in his adult years.
But no one wanted the grown up Frankie Lymon. This was shown several years ago and it is worth while to look at about what happen to the group ,where they are now where they were at the time of the broadcast ,and and what happened to Frankie in truth. It is a well done program. The movie is not,however. Filled with profanity,the women come off as bitter uneducated jerks only going for the money.
The film and the film makers in essence then to degrade the subject as a three timing drug taking failure. The film lowers itself then as the wives complain about Frankie and start the feminist cant about men in general and Frankie in particular. It doesn't bother the filmakers that Lymon's real life family has to watch him being dragged thru the mud and embarrassed and that they have to have him and themselves disgraced in this fashion.
The three women got thankfully very little after in the end and the viewers of this film receive the same,very little. Frankie Lymon was not perfect,he was no saint. But this film disgraces him ,just like Bird did to Charlie Parker.
It is the only glimpse of the real Lymon in the movie. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip.
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