Eddie has become clean and sober after converting to Christianity: he is now married to Baby Doll, sings in Choirboy's choir, and manages his own group. Choirboy has returned to singing in his father's church. and also leaves the group, resulting in the Heartbeats' disbandment. Duck reveals that he knows about the affair between Tanya and J.T. At an awards ceremony celebrating their success, Flash announces he is going solo. urges Tanya to disclose the affair, but she refuses. predates her relationship with Duck, but she says she is now in love with Duck. He follows her to a hotel but discovers that Tanya is meeting with J.T., not Choirboy. Duck comes to suspect his fiancé, Tanya Sawyer, is having an affair with Choirboy. The Heartbeats add Flash as their lead singer in Eddie's place. Guilt-ridden over his indirect role in Jimmy's death, Eddie leaves the Heartbeats in disgrace and falls further into substance abuse and poverty as his friends can only watch on. Big Red is ultimately convicted of Jimmy's murder, forcing the group to sign with a new record label. Following Jimmy's funeral, the group learns that Eddie's deceit caused the fallout between Jimmy and Big Red. Jimmy threatens to go to authorities with information about bootlegged LPs, cooked books, and payola that could have Big Red arrested, leading the latter to have him killed.
Convinced that Jimmy intends to replace him due to his deteriorating condition, he cuts a deal with Big Red to have Jimmy cut out of his contract. However, Eddie abuses alcohol and cocaine, affecting his performance and prompting his girlfriend, Baby Doll, to break up with him. Throughout the mid-to-late 1960s, The Five Heartbeats receive numerous awards, chart several hits, and are featured on magazine covers. The group's first album cover features white people, despite the label having earlier approved a photo of the Heartbeats as the cover. Dresser's girlfriend visits and reveals she is pregnant. However, the travel is marred by racism and poor living conditions. The group goes on the road for a music tour. As a result, the Heartbeats are forced to sign with Big Red. The group instead releases their first single on Jimmy's own independent label and searches for a record company they can trust, but no one else is interested aside from a label that wants to buy Duck's songs for a group they've already signed, The Five Horsemen. Big Red offers them a deal, but Jimmy and his wife Eleanor Potter, aware of Big Red's corruption, decline. The Heartbeats win the contest and the interest of Big Red Davis, who owns Big Red Records. Eddie leads the group in a number that results in Bird's girlfriend fainting in his arms. Duck grows frustrated with the bad playing and takes over the piano stool. The announcer, a cousin of one of the Falcons, forces The Heartbeats to use the house piano player. When the owner of the club asks to hire them, they agree to let Jimmy manage them.īird and The Midnight Falcons, witnessing the Heartbeats rehearsing for a competition, become concerned they could lose Bird asks his girlfriend to invite her friends and boo The Heartbeats while cheering The Falcons. Jimmy offers to manage the group, promising them $100 if they do not win the next month's Battle of the Bands contest. The group loses to Flash and the Ebony Sparks, but pleases the crowd and is noticed by Jimmy Potter. perform at a Battle of the Bands contest as The Heartbeats. Matthews, Terrence "Dresser" Williams, and Eddie King, Jr. įive boys - Donald "Duck" Matthews, Anthony "Choirboy" Stone, J.T.
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The movie received mixed reviews from critics. Another DVD was released in 2006 for the film's 15th anniversary. The film was released to most North American audiences on Mahowever, it was not made available to audiences in other continents until 2002 when a DVD was released. The film depicts the rise and fall of a Motown inspired soul act through the eyes of one of the Heartbeats, Donald "Duck" Matthews. The plot of the film (which is loosely based on the lives of several artists: The Dells, The Temptations, Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) follows the three decade career of the rhythm and blues vocal group The Five Heartbeats. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas, and Diahann Carroll. Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans.
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