Why do Fools Fall in Love
In the 1950s, there was a du-woo singer named Frankie Limon who died and left a great legacy. Three women Zola Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Emira emerged for wealth, each claiming to be the widow of Frankie Limon, claiming legal rights to Limon's inheritance.
16 March 1956, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 July 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
29 April 1936, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
28 August 1973, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 October 1946, Dade County, Florida, USA
13 October 1938, Durham, North Carolina, USA
3 April 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 September 1952, New York City, New York, USA
27 December 1961, Savannah, Georgia, USA
8 September 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 20, 2003
The biggest problem is the man at the center.
January 01, 2000
A cop-out!
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?
April 09, 2005
Larenz Tate is terrific recreating the excitement of Frankie's stage presence.
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.
December 06, 2005
This biopic is soulless, underwritten, over-acted and, worse, just plain dull.
January 01, 2000
What made Frankie run? The movie clearly doesn't know.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
We get no discernible Frankie at all!
June 18, 2008
Too ill defined to emerge from the pack of box office also-rans.
