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Evita

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Eva Duarte Peron rises from poverty to become an Argentinian actress and the wife of powerful President Juan Peron. Through a series of flashbacks, Eva transforms from an impoverished teenager into a woman of influence and power. After the death of her father, Eva travels to Buenos Aires and begins a string of relationships with powerful men before she meets Juan. Eva's ultimate power and influence earn her both admiration and hatred.
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Evita sometimes strains to convince on a narrative level, but the soundtrack helps this fact-based musical achieve a measure of the epic grandeur to which it aspires.

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Carol Buckland CNN.com 01/05/2018
All in all, Evita is worth your time and money. Go to Full Review Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly 09/07/2011
C-
It's just a sluggish, contradictory mess, a drably "realistic" Latin-revolution music video driven by a soundtrack of mediocre '70s rock. Go to Full Review Mike Clark USA Today 01/01/2000
2.5/4
With one of the most dazzling screen chassis in years, Evita is definitely worth a look -- maybe even two. But don't look under the hood. Go to Full Review Patrick Horrigan Gay Community News (Boston) 07/13/2022
In the end, Madonna’s performance helps save Evita from being the irrelevancy it might have been and transforms it, instead, into something very much alive and strangely moving. Go to Full Review Sarah Kerr The New York Review of Books 08/16/2018
After all the painstaking verisimilitude the movie neglects its characters. Evita the woman shrinks. It's the background we react to-especially the crowd, with its power to applaud or boo. Go to Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy 04/27/2015
6/10
No matter how great all the constituent elements were, [it couldn't] survive the kind of stiff, wholly artificial and forced performance that Madonna gives. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Thomas H. @Hitman777gb Dec 5 Madonna is perfect in this musical. I don’t even like most musicals and I loved this See more Koi P @hopep Oct 15 Perfection. Thought-provoking. Emotional. Amazing music. Fantastic performances. See more Simon T Jul 5 The biggest problem with Evita is that it has next to no plot. Poor girl sleeps her way to the top, then takes a long time dying. That's it. With music. Lloyd Webber has no off button, so he keeps repeating a handful of Big Tunes, sticks in a key change so he can milk it even more, then hands it to his orchestrator to generate a Latin-American vibe. He's lucky here to have Alan Parker inject some grit and genuine beauty, although even he can't rescue a moribund second half. Jimmy Nail provides the only humour as the washed-up Magaldi: he also gives the best performance. See more JM M Jul 3 Just watched this after 20 years. What a slog. The good: production values and songs. The bad: Madonna, Madonna, Madonna. For everyone saying "It's her best acting performance" . . . that's a pretty low bar, no? She's so wooden and her voice is nowhere near the level Evita demands. Also, Jonathan Pryce is a great actor but miscast here. See more I. S. W Feb 21 When I first saw this movie, as an opera lover, I quickly realized that I was in opera heaven! The melodies are infectious and the semitones dramatic and intriguing. Aside from Madonna's stellar all-digital 1989 record album, "Like A Prayer", I believe Evita is her crowning achievement. Despite Madonna's omnipresence, Antonio Banderas is the glue that holds it all together. You can watch Evita over and over, mainly for the music. See more Cuneyt K 11/28/2024 The story of the meeting of two women who have fought against prejudice all their lives. As Eva Peron, Madonna gives her best performance to date. Not to mention her success in performing the songs. See more Read all reviews
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Alan Parker

Director

Madonna

Eva Perón

Antonio Banderas

Ché

Jonathan Pryce

Juan Perón

Jimmy Nail

Agustín Magaldi

Julian Littman

Brother Juan

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Synopsis Eva Duarte Peron rises from poverty to become an Argentinian actress and the wife of powerful President Juan Peron. Through a series of flashbacks, Eva transforms from an impoverished teenager into a woman of influence and power. After the death of her father, Eva travels to Buenos Aires and begins a string of relationships with powerful men before she meets Juan. Eva's ultimate power and influence earn her both admiration and hatred.
Director
Alan Parker
Producer
Robert Stigwood, Andrew G. Vajna
Screenwriter
Tim Rice, Oliver Stone
Distributor
Hollywood Pictures
Production Co
Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Dirty Hands Productions, Summit Entertainment
Rating
PG
Genre
Musical, Drama, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 25, 1996, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 13, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$50.0M
Runtime
2h 14m
Sound Mix
Surround
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