Chorus Line

UPC: 027616884596

Studio: MGM

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity]

Summary: Broadway's celebratory musical about rejection makes it to the screen in a fizzless adaptation by Richard Attenborough that misses the whole point of the Broadway show -- i.e. the dancing and the dancers. Instead, the dancers become a limp Greek chorus for the dead love affair between a choreographer, Zach (a pre-Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas) and his old flame, Cassie (Alyson Reed) the star dancer. Zach is holding try-outs for a new Broadway musical and, as armies of dancers are brought on stage to audition for Zach, he sits in the darkened recesses of the theater, puffing on a cigarette, as he winnows out hopeful dancers who want to become part of the chorus line for Zach's new show. Finally, Zach has reduced the dancers to 16 men and women, and he asks each of them to step to the footlights and tell him about their lives and their dreams. But backstage, while the dancers are confessing their pasts to Zach, Zach's past walks through the stage door. Cassie, Zach's ex-lover, whom Zach met, courted and broke up with in the theatrical environs, has returned. Once a big star, Cassie has returned to the theater -- not to see Zach but to audition for Zach's musical. She needs the work. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: cc"Marvin Hamlisch: From Broadway to Hollywood" featurette
Original theatrical trailer
English stereo surround
English, French & Spanish language subtitles

Chorus Line

Format: DVD

Release Date: 04/15/2003

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 118 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Main Title/"Next Group!" [6:14]
2. Everybody From the Top [2:36]
3. I Hope I Get It [4:38]
4. Used to Be a Danger [6:18]
5. Eliminating Down [2:44]
6. Who Am I Anyway? [1:06]
7. Introductions [6:02]
8. What's Not on the Resum?? [4:22]
9. I Can Do That [4:05]
10. Lifestyles of the Bizarre [1:55]
11. At the Ballet [7:58]
12. A Couple of Hard Workers [2:27]
13. "Gonorrhea!"/Hello, Twelve [3:11]
14. Surprise, Surprise [6:27]
15. Nothing [4:42]
16. Dancer Waiter Whatever [1:56]
17. Dance-Ten, Looks-Three [9:11]
18. Let Me Dance for You [6:30]
19. Paul's Parents [5:18]
20. One/"A Star Like You" [9:06]
21. What I Did for Love [2:36]
22. Slip and Fall [5:16]
23. Lives on the Line [4:58]
24. One/End Credits [6:42]

Cast and Crew: Brooke Smith  Actor 
Jack Lehnert  Actor 
Timothy Scott  Actor 
Karen Prunczik  Actor 
Bambi Jordan  Actor 
Julie Hughes  Actor 
Barry Moss  Actor 
Richard de Fabees  Actor 
J. Patrick McNamara  Actor 
Jeffrey Cornell  Actor 
Melissa Randel  Actor 
Sammy Smith  Actor 
Gloria Lynch  Actor 
John Hammil  Actor 
Mansoor Najeeullah  Actor 
Gregg Huffman  Actor 
Jennifer Kent  Actor 
Peter Fitzgerald  Actor 
Richard Attenborough  Director 
Cy Feuer  Producer 
Marvin Hamlisch  Composer (Music Score) 
Ernest H. Martin  Producer 
Arnold Schulman  Screenwriter 
Michael Douglas  Actor 
Terrence Mann  Actor 
Alyson Reed  Actor 
Cameron English  Actor 
Vicki Frederick  Actor 
Audrey Landers  Actor 
Michael Blevins  Actor 
Yamil Borges  Actor 
Sharon Brown  Actor 
Gregg Burge  Actor 
Tony Dean Fields  Actor 
Nicole Fosse  Actor 
Jan Gan Boyd  Actor 
Michelle Johnston  Actor 
Janet Jones  Actor 
Pam Klinger  Actor 
Charles McGowan  Actor 
Justin Ross  Actor 
Blane Savage  Actor 
Matt West  Actor 

Country: USA