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Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance - 2009
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An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
107 min
Release date:
23 Sep 2009
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$18,000,000
Revenue:
$77,211,836
Awards:
1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
It's almost fatally modest. But it has a sweet spirit, and it offers only one true moment of inadvertent camp: a (lame) finale featuring an African dance routine completely at odds with all the white bread we've just been served.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Sep 2009
rotten:
I don't mind the cornball and I don't mind the cliches, but I just think that the thing has to be executed a little better than this.
– A.O. Scott,
At the Movies,
28 Sep 2009
fresh:
There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
30 Sep 2009
rotten:
Members of the class of '80 struggled to stay in school despite homelessness and crime; the greatest crisis in '09 finds a student's Sesame Street work schedule affecting her GPA.
– Michelle Orange,
L.A. Weekly,
1 Oct 2009
rotten:
The high school is so sanitized that there are no drugs, cutthroat competition, or-inconceivably for a theatrical milieu-no gay students.
– Andrea Gronvall,
Chicago Reader,
2 Oct 2009
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