The Prom

PG-13

Released Dec 11, 2020

2 hr. 11 min.

Musical

Comedy

LGBTQ+

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Down-on-their-luck Broadway stars shake up a small Indiana town as they rally behind a teen who wants to go to the prom with her girlfriend.

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Critics Consensus

Through fiery songs and dance breaks, The Prom's bonanza of glitz, glitter, and jazz hands might be enough to whisk audiences away.

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Paxton C

James Corden should not be famous. He is just a piece of trash. Other than that this movie is garbage still. The broadway show is much better than whatever this pile of trash is.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/24

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Alan K

It's good fun, but you need to realy like musicals, and just accept that James Corden can't act, sing or dance. The rest of the cast are entertaining in an unnessary camp way even given the plot of the movie. The younger actors are a lot more believable. But I guess that's not the point. I liked the songs.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/24

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Kyle M

Dazzles with spirited enthusiasm in performative embrace as a timely feel-good endeavor, this transition gets affected by tendency exposure over delivered flaws as it moves more under comedic effect including unveiling how familiar the narrative turned out to be modernly with equal provocation, but the message is empathetically solid as nicely concluded. (B)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/24

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Alec B

The original stage production is funnier and far less cloying than this.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Olga G

You can make a musical just about anything. Like, in case of The Prom, a news story. But, I suppose, to make spontaneous breaking into song somewhat more natural they had to add these Broadway actors, who barge into the story in an attempt to generate good publicity. For themselves. So, the musical that is now a movie is not really about a lesbian high schooler struggling for acceptance in Indiana. It's about those actors. And they are insufferable! Over the top, annoying. I kept watching, cringing, trying to figure out what possessed Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and James Corden to do this. I kept hoping it would get better. It never really did. It just got a couple of tearjerker moments that made me teary and furious, because I felt so manipulated. These great actors had to have seen something in it. I still don't know what.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/28/23

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Aaron M

I love musicals, I love movie musicals. I'm not sure there is any movie musical I could think of that I don't like. I hated this.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/23

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Ryan Murphy

Director

Meryl Streep

Dee Dee Allen

James Corden

Barry Glickman

Nicole Kidman

Angie Dickinson

Keegan-Michael Key

Mr. Hawkins

Andrew Rannells

Trent Oliver

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Esther Zuckerman

Thrillist

None of this is to say that The Prom didn't have me, a sap, crying by the end. But it also proves that, no matter how hard notable celebs try bathed in neon light, sometimes a glitzy film can't match the thrill of live theater.

Dec 15, 2020

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Roxana Hadadi

Polygon

There's too much of Corden to ignore in The Prom, but there isn't much to like.

Dec 15, 2020

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Anthony Lane

New Yorker

There were moments when I simply lost my courage and had to look away, as some people do during the tooth-drilling scene in "Marathon Man."

Dec 13, 2020

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Jillian Chilingerian

Offscreen With Jillian

In the middle of a pandemic, this plot feels extremely tone-deaf and once again celebrities mocking themselves but never realizing they are the actual problem in society.

Aug 22, 2023

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Nicolas Soto

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

The Prom is a campy film that brings all the zazz, even with its major issues.

Rated: 6/10

Jan 22, 2023

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Taking the vainglorious Broadway actors out of the equation, Pellman and DeBose have a sweet, intoxicating relationship bolstered by an amazingly supportive, hardly recognizable Tracey Ullman and an only slightly out of his depth Keegan-Michael Key.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 6, 2022

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Synopsis

Down-on-their-luck Broadway stars shake up a small Indiana town as they rally behind a teen who wants to go to the prom with her girlfriend.

Director: Ryan Murphy
Screenwriter: Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Netflix, Ryan Murphy Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Suggestive/Sexual References|Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 11, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 11, 2020
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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