The Five Heartbeats Page #7

Synopsis: In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful young African American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improve, turn pro, and rise to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry with it's casual racism and greed while the personal weaknesses of the members threaten to destroy the integrity of the band.
Genre: Drama, Music
Director(s): Robert Townsend
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
1991
121 min
3,166 Views


(Drones Like An Airplane)

Now, how are you guys

supposed to fiy like that, huh?

Yeah.

Daddy, who's that?

Y'all go play with your mama.

Duck, you heard what Daddy said.

Would you get over here, Duck?

I feel stupid.

Whoever has kids frst.

I missed you, Duck.

Yo.

Choirboy, what you doing

with the ribs?

You put...

- Charbroiled?

- Charbroiled?

Charcoaled.

Maybe you could manage us,

'cause we gonna be hot.

Trust me.

Tell him, Lester.

All the other rappers

are in their 20s,

but we're in our 40s.

That's part of our hook.

And the other part of our hook

is we rap...

country and western.

Whoo!

Hi. I'm Donnie Simpson.

Welcome to a very special

Video Soul.

I'm going to kick this show off

with my favorite video.

I love these guys.

Here are Flash

and the Five Horsemen.

(Singing)

(Ends)

UncleJ.T.,

we wanted to see Flash.

j.T., the girls

are all so excited.

They won't be watching Flash

in my house.

Leave those kids alone.

If they want to watch that,

it's OK.

That's junk. That's not music. I can't

have them listening to that stuff.

Show them what real music is.

You ain't said nothing

but a word.

Heartbeats, front and center!

Eddie.

Sure y'all want to hang

with old Eddie King?

We're sure.

(Singing)

What you waiting on, Duck?

I ain't sang in years.

(Continues)

You sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

Fall in line, Girl Scout.

You don't need me.

I know that. You were always

the worst dancer anyway.

The man had two left feet.

I wasn't the worst dancer.

Choirboy was.

Get out of here!

What was that?

The year was 1 965.

It was summertime.

It was fall.

It was summer.

It was fall.

- Bet.

- Bet.

Look, stand here, man.

5... 6...

Wait, wait.

This one, this one.

OK, OK.

5... 6... 7... 8.

(Continues)

Stay on it.

Keep it up.

(Continues)

(Continues)

(Continues)

(Continues)

(Ends)

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