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Sparks' Sparkle is a gifted songwriter, but lacks the confidence to put herself out there as a singer. This time around, the titular role is filled by Jordin Sparks, the 2007 "American Idol" winner with a platinum record and over 30 Wikipedia paragraphs to her (household?) name. The film seems like an obvious vehicle for a pop star to break into acting, although that wasn't quite the case for the original's seasoned but not yet famous 16-year-old Irene Cara (an alumna of "The Electric Company", who appropriately enough would find Fame). Neither the period setting nor anything else in this Sparkle provides any flavor. This version arbitrarily takes place in 1968 Detroit, presumably to set the music and story against the backdrop of Motown and make the dream of musical success a more attainable one. The original movie, co-written by '90s Batman franchise-killing director Joel Schumacher, was set in Harlem during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Still, you definitely have seen this movie in the sense that we all have because this is as generic as any fictional tale of a singer's rise. You probably haven't seen the little-known 1976 film on which this is loosely based and odds are that you didn't catch this remake in theaters. But the allure of a posthumous performance that clearly factored into the strong showings of The Dark Knight and Michael Jackson's This Is It didn't draw the masses to this musical drama, which had an ordinary run in fairly wide release. Featuring Houston in a supporting role, Sparkle didn't budge from its scheduled mid-August release date. Shortly before her Grammy Awards weekend death, though, Houston made one final movie, acting for the first time in a decade and a half. And then, aside from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella for the 1997 revival of The Wonderful World of Disney, Houston's acting career ended, while her music one stalled over a number of high-profile personal problems. The following Christmas brought The Preacher's Wife. Three years later, she followed that up with the mid-sized hit ensemble comedy Waiting to Exhale. Her debut, The Bodyguard, was one of 1992's biggest blockbusters. Houston's movie stardom was short-lived and limited to the mid-1990s. When Whitney Houston passed away in February, the world didn't just lose one of the best-selling pop singers of all time, it also lost an actress, albeit one that hadn't performed in fifteen years.