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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 6599
Released: January 15, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Set in 1982 glitter tells the story of billie frank whose drug and alcohol addicted mother loses custody of her when she was 10 years old. Billie grows up in a foster home in one of the toughest neighborhoods in new york city where she meets an influential young dj with who she pursues her dream. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Mariah Carey Terrence Howard Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Vondie Curtis Hall
Description of Glitter:
Despite box-office failure and the highly publicized fatigue of its star at the time of its fall 2001 release, Glitter is a surprisingly effective vehicle for pop diva Mariah Carey, who will delight her many fans in her appealing screen debut. The standard rags-to-riches plot unfolds with the predictability of falling dominoes, but there's simple, infectious charm in Carey's portrayal of Billie Frank, an urban thrush who's discovered by ace club DJ Dice (Max Beesley) and rises to stadium-filling stardom in the post-disco New York of 1983. One hoary subplot works (Billie's quest for her long-lost mother) and another doesn't (Dice's debt to a threatening rival), while Carey plays a variant of herself with a gentle blend of vulnerability and good-girl fortitude. With a bright supporting cast and a stellar soundtrack, this movie didn't deserve the bad rap it got, and like her determined yet delicate character, Carey emerges unscathed despite considerable odds against her. --Jeff Shannon
Glitter Reviews:
Mariah Carey + Acting = Failure of the Century 
2009-11-02 - OMG, I don't even know were to begin. This movie was just garbage. Seriously, I thought you have to act to be considered an actor. Mariah Carey was an horrible actor. Don't get me wrong, I love her music, but her acting is poor.....very poor. This is not a movie, more like torture!
Ya gotta crawl before you walk!!!!!! 
2009-01-03 - Honestly I didn't see where this movie was that bad. My favorite parts are the beginning, when the mother and daughter duet. I'm still waiting for that little girl to make a album. Was that her actually singing? And the club scene where Billie/Mariah funks up "Funkin' For Jamaica" was totally flawless. Truth be told I bought the movie for those two scenes alone. It was worth the 10 bucks I paid for it, on VHS. Watch it for yourself, you be the judge.
"All that glitters is not gold"
2008-12-09 - "Glitter" is pop diva Mariah Carey's infamous 2001 cinematic debut. It's gloriously bad. It's not as over-the-top as the Olivia Newton-John extravaganza "Xanadu",but it comes pretty close. There's a song every ten minutes, making the movie a music video with a threadbare plot. Stars like Terrence Howard,Padma Lakshmi (host of Top Chef),and R&B singer Eric Benet (Halle Berry's ex) give the film more glitter than it would otherwise have.
Mariah Carey stars as the androgynously named Billie Frank,whose black mother and white father are at odds,and whose mother has drug issues. Billie is dropped off at an orphanage(?) where she meets Tia Texada and Da Brat. In the meantime,there are some painful blinding white flashbacks and dizzying camera work that seems to have been inspiration for "Cloverfield." Billie does some backup singing for the conceited diva Silk (Lakshmi) Soon,she catches the ear of DJ Dice (Max Beesley) She gets catapulted into instant fame without much effort on her part. She sings,and audiences are smitten. Terrence Howard does a great job as a sleazy producer--he hustles&flows his way through the movie. Billie and Dice go on an odd date accompanied by a song that's a smooth jazz radio station sample,one in which Billie spends most of the time sniffing a rose at the restaurant. As is expected,the instant love affair culminates in instant sex thereafter. As Billie's success grows, Dice becomes jealous and controlling. She leaves him, has a successful dance duet with Eric Benet, then has a sold-out one-song concert at Madison Square Garden (where she's learned that Dice has been killed) It ends,amazingly,with the limo driver taking Billie all the way from New York City to her mother's place in the Maryland wilderness.
"Glitter" is the R&B/pop version of "A Star is Born." There's a pervasive,heavy-handed "no smoking" message,from Billie's mother accidentally burning down the house to Dice's hinted-at lung cancer. The frosting on the cake is Billie's mother issues.
"Glitter" shines as a cubic zirconium of bad movies!
Pretty good, even though most people are bashing about it. 
2008-09-23 - All critics called it really bad but in my opinion, I think this is a pretty good movie. Why didn't they criticized Britney as much? I think her movie was far worst than Mariah's. Of course, if you're a Mariah fan, you'll probably enjoy it like I did. She started acting in this movie so, nobody could expect much but I think she did a pretty good job for a first-timer. Anyway, 9/11 didn't help her either so that wasn't her year. I give it 5 stars despite all the critics out there. MARIAH FOREVER!!!
I LOVE GLITTER!!!
2008-09-10 - Even my 12 yr old loved Glitter and cried. It was a good movie that came out during the wrong time...9/11. So that sunk the movie and cd because people weren't in the mood for it. I really enjoyed it and I own it.
