131. True Stories
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Byrne
Actors: David Byrne, John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Annie McEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen
Plot: A small, everyday Texas town prepares for the upcoming sesquicentennial of the state and we tag along, meeting a cast of colorful characters who populate it.
132. For Me and My Gal
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Busby Berkeley
Actors: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly, Mártha Eggerth, Ben Blue, Stephen McNally
133. Step Up 2 the Streets
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Chu
Actors: Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp, Briana Evigan, Tony Devon, Telisha Shaw, Mari Koda
134. Broadway Melody of 1936
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Actors: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Buddy Ebsen, Paul Harvey, Sid Silvers
135. Go West
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Buzzell
Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Robert Barrat
Plot: In this Marx Brothers comedy, the stars head to the American West where they help a couple trying to get married reclaim a stolen property deed in which the land is going to be sold to the railroad to connect the railways to the Pacific.
136. Carmen Jones
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Brock Peters
Plot: A young man in the U.S. Air Force dumps his sweetheart for a wilder and
unobtainable woman.
137. Something for the Boys
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan, Perry Como
138. The Jazz Singer
Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alan Crosland
Actors: Al Jolson, Eugenie Besserer, Warner Oland, May McAvoy, Robert Gordon, Otto Lederer
Plot: A run away Jewish man who goes against his family heritage is given the opportunity to be become a jazz singer. He tries to balance his relationships but must make choices that many may or may not like to make. The first talking movie.
139. Perhaps Love ( Ru guo · Ai )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Chan
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou, Jacky Cheung, Jin-hee Ji, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue
Plot: This musical-within-a-musical amassed several 2006 Hong Kong Film Awards, and rightfully so. A sumptuous production involving a love triangle (one vertex of which is the great Takeshi Kaneshiro, of House of Flying Daggers fame) on- and off-camera. It’s best described as part Busby Berkeley and part Barnum & Bailey--with a touch of amnesia mixed in for good measure.
140. Sita Sings the Blues
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nina Paley
Actors: Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Debargo Sanyal, Reena Shah
