Drama Music
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Directed by
Robert Townsend
Written by
Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans
John Canada Terrell
Michael 'Flash' Turner
John Witherspoon
Wild Rudy
Harry Lennix
Dresser
Hawthorne James
Big Red
Diahann Carroll
Eleanor Potter
Leon
J.T.
Robert Townsend
Duck
Michael Wright
Eddie
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Theresa Randle
Brenda
Kasi Lemmons
Cookie
Roger Rose
The Five Horsemen
Tommy Redmond Hicks
Pastor Blake
Deborah Lacey
Rose
Troy Byer
Baby Doll
Tico Wells
Choirboy
Bobby McGee
Leon
Eugene Robert Glazer
David Green
Harold Nicholas
Sarge
O.L. Duke
Monroe
Carla Brothers
Tanya Sawyer
Chuck Patterson
Jimmy Potter
Roy Fegan
Bird
Timmie Rogers
Buddy Lewis
Donnie Simpson
Donnie Simpson
Norma Donaldson
Mrs. Sawyer
James Anderson
Big Red's Guys

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