A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 10 nominations total
Damon D'Oliveira
- Movie Producer
- (as Damon D'Olivera)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaWas one of the last major film releases to feature the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, three times in the film, before they were destroyed.
- GoofsDice mentions to Billie that one of his favorites is Quincy Jones, citing his Grammys and Oscars. This scene takes place in 1983. To that point, Jones had been nominated for seven Academy Awards, but had never won one. And the only award from the Academy that he has ever won to this day was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award which he received in 1994.
- Quotes
Video Director: We ask ourselves, is she black? Is she white? We don't care. She's exotic. I want to see more of her breasts.
- Alternate versionsThe American Theatrical Release Features The 20th Century Fox Logo, And On The American Poster The Opening Credits Say "Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Pictures present", And In The International Theatrical And Worldwide Home Video Releases. The 20th Century Fox Is Plastered By The Columbia Pictures Logo And The Opening Credits Say "Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox present"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Panic Room with Will Ferrell (2002)
- SoundtracksLillie's Blue
Written by Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Mariah Carey
Featured review
Seeing 'Glitter' with an open mind, despite its notoriously awful reputation, it is not quite as horrendous to be down there with the worst films of all time, but the problems 'Glitter' has are plentiful and are significant enough to consider it a very bad film still.
The good news is that Mariah Carey does sound absolutely incredible, always have loved her voice with its beautiful tone, emotional connection and uniquely wide range. Also Terrence Howard is quite good and steals scenes.
However, Carey's enviable skills as a singer does not translate in her skills as an actress, it was really strange that an artist with such a huge vocal range (five octaves!) is the complete antithesis in her very one-note and often expressionless acting here, which is devoid of any joy, surprise, sincerity or emotion. The ability to connect emotionally with her songs also doesn't translate in the acting, she looks stiff and bored throughout here.
Unfortunately, the songs here do nothing for her vocal talents either. She sings them very well indeed, but there are far more memorable and emotionally powerful songs from her out there that also display her unique vocal gifts much more. They're not awful, just bland. The rest of the acting is also poor, with Max Beesley being equally lousy and not sounding sure what accent to pull off, while with the characters Carey's is shallow, one-dimensional and very difficult to relate to (which is a huge dividend considering the type of story it is) and the rest are annoying caricatures, a couple even irrelevant to the story.
Even for a film set in the 80s, 'Glitter' does much less than glitter and looks firmly stuck in the 80s. It looks gaudy and too much of the camera work is too gimmicky and amateurish. The structurally wafer-thin script, with clumsy attempts at being hip, embarrassingly unfunny humour and "poignant" moments that come over as emotionally manipulative, sounds even older than that and like an awkwardly written soap-opera rejected at first draft (and should have stayed there).
'Glitter' has very little story, it's very thin and aimless, and padded by the bland and uninspiredly choreographed songs shot like a series of out of date music videos and subplots that come out of nowhere and go very little further than that (i.e. the reappearance of the cat or the reunion with her mother). It starts tedious and loses even more drive as it plods on, and throughout like Carey's performance there's no joy, no emotion and no substance. The direction is decidedly inept.
Overall, not that horrendous but it is no wonder that Carey herself regrets being involved in this. 2/10 Bethany Cox
The good news is that Mariah Carey does sound absolutely incredible, always have loved her voice with its beautiful tone, emotional connection and uniquely wide range. Also Terrence Howard is quite good and steals scenes.
However, Carey's enviable skills as a singer does not translate in her skills as an actress, it was really strange that an artist with such a huge vocal range (five octaves!) is the complete antithesis in her very one-note and often expressionless acting here, which is devoid of any joy, surprise, sincerity or emotion. The ability to connect emotionally with her songs also doesn't translate in the acting, she looks stiff and bored throughout here.
Unfortunately, the songs here do nothing for her vocal talents either. She sings them very well indeed, but there are far more memorable and emotionally powerful songs from her out there that also display her unique vocal gifts much more. They're not awful, just bland. The rest of the acting is also poor, with Max Beesley being equally lousy and not sounding sure what accent to pull off, while with the characters Carey's is shallow, one-dimensional and very difficult to relate to (which is a huge dividend considering the type of story it is) and the rest are annoying caricatures, a couple even irrelevant to the story.
Even for a film set in the 80s, 'Glitter' does much less than glitter and looks firmly stuck in the 80s. It looks gaudy and too much of the camera work is too gimmicky and amateurish. The structurally wafer-thin script, with clumsy attempts at being hip, embarrassingly unfunny humour and "poignant" moments that come over as emotionally manipulative, sounds even older than that and like an awkwardly written soap-opera rejected at first draft (and should have stayed there).
'Glitter' has very little story, it's very thin and aimless, and padded by the bland and uninspiredly choreographed songs shot like a series of out of date music videos and subplots that come out of nowhere and go very little further than that (i.e. the reappearance of the cat or the reunion with her mother). It starts tedious and loses even more drive as it plods on, and throughout like Carey's performance there's no joy, no emotion and no substance. The direction is decidedly inept.
Overall, not that horrendous but it is no wonder that Carey herself regrets being involved in this. 2/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jul 16, 2016
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- All That Glitters
- Filming locations
- World Trade Center, New York City, New York, USA(Billie and her friends shopping on the street in Manhattan)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $22,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,274,407
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,414,596
- Sep 23, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $5,272,594
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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