Product Details

• Actors: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Lee Curreri
• Directors: Alan Parker, Albert Magnoli
• Writers: Albert Magnoli, Christopher Gore, William Blinn
• Producers: Alan Marshall, David De Silva, Joseph Ruffalo
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000YIGNHW
• For more information about "Purple Rain/Fame" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Music. Excitement. Hope. All good-as-gold in these Academy Award®- winning looks at youthful bids for stardom. Prince took home the Oscar® for his electrifying Best Original Song Score (1984) and stars in Purple Rain, a fever-riffed tale of a rocker’s backstage turmoil and onstage triumph. “May be the smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock-’n’-roll movie ever made,” Rolling Stone proclaimed. Dreamers and doers at the High School for the Performing Arts hone skills and face life head-on in Fame, the exhilarating winner of two Oscars® for Best Original Score and Song (1980). Star Irene Cara belts out the live-forever title tune of this movie that’s “a genuine treasure” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

DVD Features:
Featurette
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, September 18, 2009

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Jill A. Odice "jodice" (States) - See all my reviews
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I was happy to get 2 of my favorite old movies on one DVD. The music in both is really great which is pretty much what I remembered about Fame. The acting was ok in Fame, not how I remembered it from when I was a kid and it came out ...Back then I thought it was the best movie ever made :-)When I saw that they were doing a remake of it, I could not understand why since the original was so great! Now looking at it with older eyes, I see how dated it is and look forward to seeing the new version. I even rented the TV show which also I thought was so great when I was a kid and found it to be pretty lame now :-)I guess our tastes change as we grow up...
Purple Rain is one of those movies that is just filled with so much great music that I will always love it. I have watched it probably a couple dozen times since it came out, and while the story is kind of dumb, the music is brilliant :-)I don't think Prince has done anything near as good since then...

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Chick Flicks, June 4, 2009

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Jeff, Young Old-Timer (Lakeland, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

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I got this two-movie CD for my wife. The bottom line is, if she's happy, I'm happy. These are not my favorite movies by a long shot, but they are produced well, and I think we got a very good transfer to the digital format. They just ain't my cup o' tea, but, like I said, my wife's all over them, so there's happiness in the household. Five stars from my better half. I would give them three stars for having both movies on a single disc.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LSD Variety, April 23, 2010

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Lisa Smith "LDS Variety" (Shreveport, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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Dance & sing....those are two things I can't do. But I enjoyed watching both of these movies. The quality and price was the bomb. I will definitely be ordering again.