Ginger and Fred

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Ginger and Fred

PG-13

1986

2h 6m

Comedy

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In Italy, dancers Pippo and Amelia -- once famous for their impersonations of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- reunite to perform one last ballroom routine on the TV show "We Are Proud to Present." Now both show biz has-beens, Pippo and Amelia are billed alongside a veritable circus sideshow of dwarfs and celebrities. Soon the aging dancers take to the stage and transform the vulgar spectacle into a magical re-imagining of 1930s Hollywood.

Gilbert Adair

Sight & Sound

08/01/2015

The scenes in and around the television studio, as the two forlorn old troupers come to terms with the punkish fauna of the 1980s, are -- for this director -- strangely verveless and unfocused.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

05/20/2003

5/5

When, as happens on several occasions, Amelia and Pippo become an integral part of the impressionistic film that surrounds them, instead of just being witnesses to it, Ginger and Fred ranks with the best work Mr. Fellini has ever done.

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

01/01/2000

The film isn't a particularly pleasurable experience (the satire of television is broad and wayward, and the attempts to wring pathos from Ginger and Fred's geriatric infirmities fall far short of the mark), but it does have a cranky, old-man's integrity.

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Jack Morris

Washington Blade

05/23/2022

Fellini’s target is clearly the vacuousness of TV (there is even. a humiliating game show), yet while he mocks its banality and slickness, his mode of entertaining seems virtually the same; he only magnifies its idiocy. This isn’t really fair.

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Octavi Marti

El Pais (Spain)

03/11/2020

Ginger e Fred is simultaneously an entertaining movie and a spectacle that produces an infinite sadness because of its pessimism and disillusionment. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

09/19/2008

B

It's one of Fellini's more accessible and warmer films.

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@ScottR 09/04/2018

Didn't do much for me, lots of symbolism, but like a dead horse.

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04/01/2014

one of my favourite fellini pics

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03/07/2014

A terrific performance by Masina and Mastroianni and a beautiful story by Fellini.

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Emilio T

@MilloTPue 01/04/2014

Fellini is very good when he looks at the small characters, lost in society. But he is quite boring when talks about the mediocrity of fame and spectacle. Maybe because of that, only Giuletta Masina, and the couple she does with Mastroianni, gets saved in this movie. The original idea is good, but the execution...

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12/07/2012

Hilarious satire of Italian television.

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11/16/2012

You're going to crey... don't forget, Fellini is a man, and he's Catholic.

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Federico Fellini

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Giulietta Masina

Amelia Bonetti (Ginger)

Marcello Mastroianni

Pippo Botticella (Fred)

Franco Fabrizi

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Synopsis

In Italy, dancers Pippo and Amelia -- once famous for their impersonations of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- reunite to perform one last ballroom routine on the TV show "We Are Proud to Present." Now both show biz has-beens, Pippo and Amelia are billed alongside a veritable circus sideshow of dwarfs and celebrities. Soon the aging dancers take to the stage and transform the vulgar spectacle into a magical re-imagining of 1930s Hollywood.

Director: Federico Fellini
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi, Heinz Bibo
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra, Tullio Pinelli
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Produzioni Europee Associate, France 3 Cinéma, Stella Film, Les Films Ariane
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 1986, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $577.5K
Runtime: 2h 6m
Sound Mix: Mono