Strengths and cruelty of the R & B music business are dramatized with humor, love, tragedy and the ultimate triumph of family with an African American flavor. The music is all "butter" ...no margarine here... at a time when the music was the show and the show was the music. Talking about cruelty ...the only thing meaner than the villains in this film was the limited way it was distributed...how long did it play in your "hood".
Review of The Five Heartbeats
