Ginger and Fred

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Reunion Films, Satire, Melodrama, Showbiz Comedy  |   Release Date - Mar 28, 1986 (USA)  |   Run Time - 126 min.  |   Countries - Germany, France, Italy  |   MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (hoping to become the Fred and Ginger of Italy), Amelia and Pippo parted company to pursue their separate lives. Neither one was particularly successful in other fields of endeavor, so when after many years Amelia is offered a guest-star gig on a TV variety show, she jumps at the chance. She also seeks out her former partner, Pippo, who may have looked like Astaire in his younger days, but now....The overall good cheer of the film was dampened when the real Ginger Rogers sued the distributors of Ginger and Fred for "defamation of character."

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impersonation, reunion, show-business, television-show