The Jazz Singer is a 1980 musical remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer. It starred Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Sir Laurence Olivier, and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie.
Neil Diamond was praised and panned, nominated for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a Razzie Award for Worst Actor for his role, of which he won the latter. Despite producing three hit songs, "America", "Love on the Rocks" and "Hello...
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The Jazz Singer is a 1980 musical remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer. It starred Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Sir Laurence Olivier, and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie.
Neil Diamond was praised and panned, nominated for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a Razzie Award for Worst Actor for his role, of which he won the latter. Despite producing three hit songs, "America", "Love on the Rocks" and "Hello Again", none were nominated for an Oscar.
The soundtrack was enormously successful, eventually reaching multi-platinum status and becoming Diamond's most successful album to date. The film received mixed reviews and is often considered a flop ($27 million in grosses), even though it made more money at the box office than other contemporary films which became eventual Oscar nominees such as Raging Bull ($22 million), The Elephant Man, American Gigolo or Tess.
For a number of years, the video rights in the United Kingdom were owned by Warner...
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