Genre: Contemporary Movie Musicals
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Love (2011)
Cast: Gunner Wright, Bradley Horn, Corey Richardson …
Directed by: William Eubank
Stranded alone aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Lee Miller (Gunner Wright) fights to survive the stress of isolation and stay alive. But everything changes when he discovers…
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The Runaways (2010)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon …
Directed by: Floria Sigismondi
Dakota Fanning stars in The Runaways, about a group of extraordinary young women as they rise from rebellious So. California kids to rock stars of the now legendary band that paved the way…
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Burlesque (2010)
Cast: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane …
Directed by: Steve Antin
After leaving Iowa with stars in her eyes, Ali arrives at a Los Angeles burlesque lounge with dreams of taking the stage with her soaring voice. Club owner Tess is about to lose the place and…
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Spork (2010)
Cast: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park, Rachel G. Fox …
Directed by: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
With unruly hair, enormous glasses and pink cheeks, junior high outcast Spork (Savannah Stehlin) has trouble fitting in anywhere. But after befriending her neighbor Tootsie Roll (Sydney…
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Standing Ovation (2010)
Cast: Kayla Jackson, Kayla Raparelli, Sal Dupree …
Directed by: Stewart Raffill
With their eyes on a million-dollar prize, five junior high friends (Kayla Jackson, Pilar Martin, Najee Wilson, Kayla Raparelli and Alexis Biesiada) form a girl group and enter a nationally…
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Score: A Hockey Musical (2010)
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Marc Jordan, Noah Reid …
Directed by: Michael McGowan
There's no typo; you read it right. With a rousing score of original songs, writer-director Michael McGowan's joyful ode to classic Hollywood movie musicals concerns a young hockey…
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Rising Stars (2010)
Cast: Kyle Riabko, Lauren Ashley Carter, Natalie Hall …
Directed by: Daniel Millican
Over the course of a high-stakes competition for young performers, three different teen musical acts find themselves dealing with the fallout of their newfound fame and the pressures of…
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Sci-Fi High: The Movie Musical (2010)
Cast: Danny Dillon, Alicen Holden, Ted Nappi …
Directed by: Dan Bellusci, Steve Dispensa
High school turns out be a high-anxiety exercise for Billy Dever (Dan Bellusci) in this extraterrestrial musical spoof set in the 1950s. While Billy has his head in the stars, his classmates…
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Nine (2009)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz …
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Film director Guido Contini faces a midlife crisis and struggles to complete his latest movie while juggling relationships with several women -- including his wife, his mistress and his…
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Fame (2009)
Cast: Kay Panabaker, Walter Perez, Naturi Naughton …
Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen
When a group of ambitious teenage dancers, musicians and actors enter a new semester at New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts, they try to make the most out of their…
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Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience (2009)
Cast: Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas …
Directed by: Bruce Hendricks
This larger-than-life Jonas Brothers documentary serves up fan-friendly helpings of Kevin, Joe and Nick with exclusive behind-the-scenes action and concert footage filmed during the…
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Passing Strange (2009)
Cast: Colman Domingo, De'Adre Aziza, Chad Goodridge …
Directed by: Spike Lee
A young black musician named Stew (played by singer-songwriter Stew himself) flees his comfortable middle-class roots in Los Angeles for a soul-searching journey to Europe and gets wrapped up…
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Spectacular! (2009)
Cast: Nolan Gerard Funk, Tammin Sursok, Victoria Justice …
Directed by: Robert Iscove
After losing their star singer to a rival group, show choir Spectacular is in big trouble for the national championship, prompting chorus leader Courtney (Tammin Sursok) to enlist talented…
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin …
Directed by: Damien Chazelle
Black-and-white verité meets the charm of the classic Hollywood musical in writer-director Damien Chazelle's romantic drama about a jazz trumpeter named Guy (Jason Palmer)…
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Destination Fame (2009)
Cast: A.J. Gil, Rick Aiello, Cuba Gooding …
Directed by: Paul DeAngelo, Ted A. Bohus
In a bid to get attention for their struggling band, Chris (A.J. Gil) and his high school pals book a gig at a local mall, where they're spotted by record label reps. The good news? The…
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Punching the Clown (2009)
Cast: Henry Phillips, Ellen Ratner, Matthew Walker …
Directed by: Gregori Viens
In a bid to jump-start his flagging career, a hapless songwriter (Henry Phillips) moves to L.A., where through a stroke of dumb luck, he lands a record deal. But show biz is a fickle…
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (2009)
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Johnny Depp …
This retrospective chronicles Hollywood's tradition of song-and-dance-filled cinema as it reinvented itself during a largely fallow period in the 1980s and '90s to come roaring back…
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Brand New Day (2009)
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy …
Directed by: Rachel Perkins
In an idyllic port town on Australia's west coast in the summer of 1969, carefree 16-year-old Willie (Rocky McKenzie) enjoys hanging out with his pals and wooing a beautiful singer named…
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Fruit Fly (2009)
Cast: L.A. Renigen, Mike Curtis, Theresa Navarro …
Directed by: H.P. Mendoza
When a performance artist (L.A. Renigen) moves into an artists' commune in San Francisco to work on her latest show and search for her biological mother, she soon realizes she's…
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Three Ways to Get a Husband (2009)
Cast: Shannon Dade, Leon, Javon Johnson …
Directed by: Je'Caryous Johnson
In this musical drama, Chastity Moore (Shannon Dade) can't find the winning combination: Devon (Leon) was a loyal man, but the war took him away. New boyfriend Jemarcus (Javon Johnson)…
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The Big Gay Musical (2009)
Cast: Daniel Robinson, Joey Dudding, Jeff Metzler …
Directed by: Casper Andreas, Fred M. Caruso
When not playing leads in a musical called "Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em," Paul and Eddie act out the story of their own star-crossed lives offstage. The recently dumped Paul…
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: Movies that Rocked 'n' Rolled (2009)
Cast: Beatles, John Travolta, Johnny Depp …
Another entry in the fine Hollywood Singing and Dancing series, this edition showcases the greatest rock 'n' roll films of the last half-century, from the musical Grease to the…
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Clear Blue Tuesday (2009)
Cast: Becca Ayers, Julie Danao, Vedant Gokhale …
Directed by: Elizabeth Lucas
Set on a series of Tuesdays over the course of seven years, this uncommon, indie rock movie-musical from director Elizabeth Lucas tells the stories of 11 people living and working in…
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth …
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
On the idyllic Greek isle of Kalokairi, single mom Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep) goes into a tizzy when her bride-to-be daughter (Amanda Seyfried), in a bid to learn her father's…
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Cast: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale …
Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are having a hard time with the fact that they'll soon be leaving high school behind. But it's nothing a little song and…