Upcoming movie "SPARKLE"
SPARKLE TRAILER
"Sparkle" Coming soon in your nearest UK cinemas!
Trailer: SPARKLE
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- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 100 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins ... see all
- Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
- Plot: SPARKLE is a contemporary comedy about life, love and relationships in the twenty first century, from the directors of Lawless Heart. Sam is a charming, young schemer who has ambitions... Read more
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| Aug 16, 2007This is London
Written and directed by Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger, this British romantic comedy is an emotional mess all round.....But a little more cinematic flair might have made Sparkle live up to its title better.....Sparkle is a mess all round Sparkle is about 10 minutes too long and directed without much fluency.... ... Full Review
shadowsonthewall.co.uk
Strongly natural performances and a likeable cast, plus a subtle examination of more serious themes, make it well worth seeing.
Hunter and Hunsinger have a remarkable touch, refusing to hurry through the story, concentrating on the people and catching telling details along the way that draw us in and add strong resonance.
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Channel 4 Film
But Sparkle 's greatest strength is its humour: subtle, character-driven and usually effective.
Ever the opportunist, Sam quickly moves to the city with his singer mother in tow - but he's soon spending more time with someone else's mum: tough, glamorous PR boss Sheila (Channing).
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