Movie #2073 "The Prom:(netflix) Well, we saw the play on Broadway, and I felt the play failed with the theatre people, but was a big success with showing the young kids, esp. the two girls who kissed midstage toward the end of the play. I can't say enough how important I felt that kiss was to Broadway--a first, and it was done with such sublime and natural beauty--- and so contrary to the phoniness of the theatre people. I resented the whole stereotyped look at theatre people in this play, esp. the gay male on Broadway who was played way too broadly for me ---- I thought it was offensive to the gay population -and so most everything the theatre people said was not funny or poignant to me in this play. I remember being bowled over by the exuberance of the young dancers at the prom--- choreography was a stand out. But it wasn't a show I wanted to see again nor one I wanted to take people to see if it ever came to Broadway in Chicago. Then, I heard it was being done for Netflix, and I really didn't intend to see it, BUT I found out it had all these actors that I admire ---Meryl Streep and James Cordon playing the two characters I least liked on Broadway, with backup by the inimitable Nicole Kidman and equally talented Andrew Rannels, so I wanted to see if it was any better, and it was. At least the theatre people because now the lines were in the hands of better actors --- who just more did it tongue in cheek --- like they were mocking who they were playing and somehow it was easier to watch --- and James Cordon was just funnier to me because he didn't play up the mean spiritedness of the character as much.But I sure did miss the two young girls from Broadway to play the girls in love. Their purity in voice --- their essence. The two girls were okay, but just not as good. Kerry Washingtonand Keegan Michael Key were wonderful adds to the film. All in all, I would recommend this to people who embrace musicals as a legitimate genre because it can be a very powerful, and entertaining, teacher of tolerance, if given the chance. I'd give it 4 out of 5.
"THE PROM" 2020 2 hours 10 mins, PG-13 2020
A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.
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