Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
- rhythm and blues (r&b)
- battle of the bands
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tico Wells — Choirboy
- Diahann Carroll — Eleanor Potter
- Harold Nicholas — Sarge
- John Canada Terrell — Michael 'Flash' Turner
- Chuck Patterson — Jimmy Potter
- Hawthorne James — Big Red
- Roy Fegan — Bird
- Troy Byer — Baby Doll
- Carla Brothers — Tanya Sawyer
- Deborah Lacey — Rose
- Theresa Randle — Brenda
- Directed
- Robert Townsend
- Written
- Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 75 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
