Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Why do fools fall in love is a good movie. I have the DVD. If you haven't seen it. You darn will love it. First you should see it. And then if you love the movie, go ahead and buy it!... Full review

This movie was great-period. It was the biopic story of singer Frankie Lymon (played by Larenz Tate). The story focuses on how a man who had it all lost it all so quickly to drugs. He had three women (Vivica A.... Full review

WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE? is a supremely entertaining biopic of the young singer Frankie Lyman, which unfolds in a clever variation on the traditional flashback form of storytelling. The film opens with three women arriving at Frankie's former... Full review

I LIKE TRUE STORIES AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM! REALLY GOOD BACKGROUND, TOO! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD TURN OUT THE WAY IT DID A LONG TIME AGO?... Full review

I think "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is a great movie. I think it is very entertaining and it keeps you guessing.... Full review

Such a good movie, this is one of my favorite bands, as well as fav movies, the music is great, the acting perfect, funny hell ya! Drama, yes...Now u know what happens to Druggies who go solo! lol I loved it.... Full review

This movie was great, don't get me wrong but something wasn't right. Larenz, do your thing bub. I love Vivica, she is just so into her acting... Full review

i had saw this movie before i bout the dvd but i love this movie i watch it everyday or almost everyday because i love it so much if you haven't seen it i think you should and then you are... Full review

i liked the movie and all but it was 2 cheesy i really think that Larenz Tate should make betta movies I liked him betta in "Menace 2 Seocity" and Halle Berry was pretty in that movie. Vivica A. Fox u... Full review

Director Gregory Nava misunderstands the complex, drug-addicted Frankie Lymon getting some of it right and much of it wrong.His fatal mistake from beginning to end is playing Frankie as a late teen instead of the 13 teen year old he... Full review

Why Do Fools Fall in Love'' is a fresh, enlightening example of how to take a tragic American show-business story and make it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining. It also mines a melodramatic vein of flaky romance and the anguish of a beautiful young talent taking a fatal nosedive. ... Full Review

Lacking a coherent tone, Why Do Fools Fall in Love bops erratically from broad comedy to romantic bathos. As chintzy as Why Do Fools Fall in Love ultimately is, the filmmakers wisely allow survivor Little Richard the last word and then inadvertently reduce the preceding two hours to mere prologue by flashing documentary footage of the actual 14-year-old Lymon at the peak of his career. ... Full Review

In 1981, Diana Ross' cover of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" became a financial success, and this led to an unusual court case over music rights. Why Do Fools Fall in Love affirms the message of the great Kurosawa film: there is no such thing as "absolute truth. ... Full Review

Nava has opened up a bit from the respectful, borderline reverential posture of his last picture, the Tejano music bio "Selena....Up to then, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" lurches around between defining itself as standard rock 'n' roll biopic, cautionary tale and overheated courtroom drama.... ... Full Review

Halle Berry ("Bulworth") is gorgeous on both sides of the divide of time....Larenz Tate ("The Postman") fails to generate enough heat to make plausible these three women falling for Lyman, warts, fibs and all..... ... Full Review

With its infectious musical numbers, candy-cane gleam and trio of feisty female leads, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?", based on the life of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, is a flawed but fun romp down memory lane. ... Full Article

By ERNEST HARDY Published: June 24, 2001 EVEN dead, I was still a threat to them.'' The words are spoken by the ghost of the Congolese nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba in the first minutes of Raoul Peck's ''Lumumba.'' Moments later ... Full Article

Frankie Lymon, the subject of Gregory Nava's uneven but entertaining bio-pic Why Do Fools Fall in Love? , wasbest known as the helium-voiced adolescent singer on the 1956 doo-wop hit that gives the movie its name, and for dying of... ... Full Article

The diverting "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is a gentler but odder version of "What's Love Got to Do With It." This time the successful musician is Frankie Lymon, a Harlem talent who in 1955 wrote and recorded the ... Full Article

Gregory Nava directed this biographical drama on the brief but intense life of singer Frankie Lymon who stayed with the popular Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers group only for a year. ... Full Article

Well, Peter Pan's girlfriend Wendy just got back from seeing WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE, the new Vivica Fox, Halle Berry and Lela Rochon flick. ... Full Article