Hope Breakfast Movie Challenge: Movie Musicals

If you can’t get to the cinemas, but you feel like a movie musical, here are some options you can enjoy at home, compiled by our movie guy Russ Matthews, from Reel Dialogue.

Musical films that will keep the little ones engaged:

• Contemporary – Vivo, Encanto, Frozen
• Classic – Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins
• Disney – The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast

Reel Dialogue pick: Enchanted (Disney+)

Synopsis: Princess Giselle is banished from her kingdom by her lover’s evil stepmother. She is then transported to the real world where she meets a lawyer and finds herself falling for him.

Musical films for date night:

• Once
• In The Heights
• A Star is Born
• Sing Street
• La La land
• The Greatest Showman
• Grease

Reel Dialogue pick: Mamma Mia! (Stan)

Synopsis: The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.

Musical films for musicalbuffs

• Les Miserables
• Phantom of the Opera
• Dream Girls
• Hairspray
• Chicago
• My Fair Lady
• Hamilton

Reel Dialogue pick: West Side Story

Synopsis: Lovers Maria and Tony find themselves entangled in the bitter battle between their gangster families.

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Musical films that aren’t classified as musicals

• The Muppet Movie
• The Blues Brothers
• Help! or A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles)
• The Sapphires
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Purple Rain

Reel Dialogue pick: Yesterday

Synopsis: Jack, a struggling musician, meets with an accident during a blackout and wakes up to find out that only he remembers The Beatles. Later, he starts singing the band’s songs to gain fame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9honCV3qc

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Feature image: West Side Story Facebook