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Why do Fools Fall in Love
It is a film that portrays the life story of the duo-singer Frankie Limon, who died in the 1950s. There are three women Zola Taylor; Elizabeth Waters and Emira Eagle all claim to be the widow of Frankie Limon, where each tries hard to claim legal rights to the estate.
16 March 1956, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 October 1940, USA
25 April 1930, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 August 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 October 1946, Dade County, Florida, USA
28 August 1973, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 August 1949, East Chicago, Indiana, USA
April 09, 2005
Larenz Tate is terrific recreating the excitement of Frankie's stage presence.May 20, 2003
The biggest problem is the man at the center.January 01, 2000
What made Frankie run? The movie clearly doesn't know.January 01, 2000
Fails to bring anything new to what is rapidly becoming a genre unto itself (the 'talented but betrayed and flawed musical legend dead before their time' genre) making one wonder Why Did They Even Bother?December 06, 2005
This biopic is soulless, underwritten, over-acted and, worse, just plain dull.January 01, 2000
A cop-out!April 25, 2003
A celebration of pop fantasies, a boyish rascal with a helium voice, and three pretty fools who fell in love with him.April 03, 2005
Worth it for the music -- but only barely.January 01, 2000
We get no discernible Frankie at all!June 18, 2002
A fresh, enlightening example of how to take a tragic American show-business story and make it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining.June 18, 2008
Too ill defined to emerge from the pack of box office also-rans.February 14, 2001
Though Nava's soapy directing style makes Fools watchable enough in a campy way, the film's unsophisticated nature undermines its better qualities.