Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker... (Full plot summary below)
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Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due?
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| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaA terrifically entertaining, ovation-worthy spectacle that results from the assembled efforts of a gifted, impassioned, invigorated creative crew. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThe movie belongs to Hudson as the proud, self-destructive Effie. When she's center stage, Dreamgirls transports you to movie musical heaven. |
| Sacramento BeeCarla MeyerSometimes a splashy movie musical can be just the thing. |
| Houston ChronicleAmy BiancolliJoy is defined as Dreamgirls, an ecstatic dose of pure top-down Motown tight-harmony effervescence that takes a hit Broadway musical about a Chicago girl group and turns it, miraculously, into a Hollywood delight. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatThe 1981 Broadway musical lumbers onto the screen saddled with clichés from every showbiz story ever made about the rags-to-riches saga along with songs that can't hold a candle to the Motown classics. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsHudson, taking over the role of Effie played on stage by Jennifer Holliday, is in charge of Dreamgirls from her opening scene, blowing away Grammy-winner Beyoncé Knowles, Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and anyone else who gets in her way. |
| 3BlackChicks ReviewKamal 'The Diva' LarsuelWhen I was a little girl, I saw a play that took my breath away and this film adaptation is more than I dreamed it could be. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonGood thing movie theaters serve their drinks in paper or plastic, or Jennifer Hudson would be shattering glass at multiplexes all over America. The gal has got some pipes. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestHere's a movie that's truly firing on all cylinders and never faltering. |
| The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe sigh you will hear across the country in the next few weeks is the sound of a gratified audience: a great movie musical has been made at last. |
