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A Star Is Born
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R,2hrs 20min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1976
Director:
Frank Pierson
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky  ...more
Synopsis: The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and cocaine, his music has lost its edge, and his performances have become painfully haphazard. One night, after a concert, he stumbles into a club where he sees a singing group fronted by Esther Hoffman (Barbra ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler
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Derided by many as a vanity production for Barbra Streisand, A Star is Born was nonetheless one of the most financially successful musicals of the 1970s. The idea of re-setting the familiar rise-and-fall story in the "rock" milieu may have had merit on paper, but the execution leaves something to be desired. Part of the problem is simple credibility: would an audience that has come to hear Kris Kristofferson's ... Full Review
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Barbra Streisand
Esther Hoffman
Kris Kristofferson
John Norman Howard
Paul Mazursky
Brian
Gary Busey
Bobby Ritchie
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