The Sapphires (film)

• Chris O'Dowd: Dave Lovelace
• Deborah Mailman: Gail
• Jessica Mauboy: Julie
• Shari Sebbens: Kay
• Miranda Tapsell: Cynthia

The Sapphires is an Australian musical film about three Aboriginal sisters who celebrate in 1968 together with her cousin as Soul Quartet her breakthrough as singers in the troops, the U.S. forces in the Vietnam War. The film is based on the eponymous Australian musical from 2004, and this in turn loosely based on the true story of Sapphires: Mother and aunt of screenwriter Tony Briggs was hired as background singers in Vietnam.

Action

The underage Julie creeps along with her sisters Gail and Cynthia from the Aboriginal Reserve, to participate in a singing competition. Although they lie down the best performance of all competitors, they have to win no chance because of the racist attitude of the white-dominated audience. But the run-down music manager and Soul fan Dave Lovelace recognizes her talent and persuaded them instead in the future Soul to sing country music and be care of him. Together with her ​​cousin Kay, the group advertises on a display of the U.S. Army, the talents for the entertainment of troops investigated. Her first engagement leads to Vietnam, where they triumphed after a slow start. Endanger the success is due to internal quarrels and jealousies and the war makes for critical situations.

Reviews

"The Sapphires, an imperfect in a sympathetic way movie, [ ... ] is not ashamed to be a remake of Dreamgirls. However, the Sapphires have a bonus: It's not about the world famous Supremes, but a now largely forgotten group of Aboriginal girls in Australia. The theme expands thus of the story of a musical career to the social situation of Aboriginal people in the 1960s and 70s. "