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Release Date: 1998
Cast: Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Pamela Reed, Ben Vereen, Little Richard, Lane Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Halle Berry, Alexis Cruz, Clifton Powell, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky, Lela Rochon ...MORE
Cast: Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Pamela Reed, Ben Vereen, Little Richard, Lane Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Halle Berry, Alexis Cruz, Clifton Powell, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky, Lela Rochon, Aries Spears, Marcello Thedford, Paula Jai Parker, Jon Huertas ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Musical, Musical Drama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Biopic [Feature], Biography, Biographical Film, Drama Film
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) is an American romantic drama, directed by Gregory Nava and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is a biographical film of the brief but intense life of R&B/Rock & Roll singer Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers for one year. Moreover, the film highlights the three women in his life, each of whom claim to have married Lymon and lay claim to his estate.
Written by Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Fall in Love stars Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate, who portrays Lymon. Little... MORE
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) is an American romantic drama, directed by Gregory Nava and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is a biographical film of the brief but intense life of R&B/Rock & Roll singer Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers for one year. Moreover, the film highlights the three women in his life, each of whom claim to have married Lymon and lay claim to his estate.
Written by Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Fall in Love stars Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate, who portrays Lymon. Little Richard also appears in the film as himself.
Lymon was thirteen years old when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock (1956).
After Mr. Rock and Roll (1957), Lymon started a solo singing career, but it all fell apart. Lymon's career was over by the time he was eighteen years old, and he died of a heroin overdose seven years later.
Jumping from the 1950s to the 1980s, the film traces the rise and fall of Lymon (Larenz Tate) in a series of flashbacks as courtroom LESS
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