Duets (2000) – A movie that included a well-known singer, Huey Lewis, and several well-known actors, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti, and Maria Bello, Duets is the story of six lost souls who find each other through karaoke. Though there are several great musical scenes in this movie, the best on has to go to Reggie Kane, played by Andre Braugher. His rendition of "Free Bird" – a rendition that in real life blended the vocals of Andre Braugher with singer Arnold McCuller – was a show stopper. Not only was it moving, heart wrenching, and touching, but it left the audience forgetting that Braugher was acting.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – This movie had it all: laughs, tears, and the really funny boss from NBC’s The Office. In Little Miss Sunshine, we follow a dysfunctional family taking a road trip from New Mexico to California to enter Olive, played by Abigail Breslin, in a beauty contest. The talent portion of Olive’s beauty contest is where the movie gets absolutely hilarious. Choreographed by her grandfather, we watch as Olive performs a striptease-like dance to Rick James' "Super Freak". Not only does the movie show a lot of heart when Olive’s family jumps on stage in her defense, but this dance provides us with an ending that no one ever saw coming; Little Miss Sunshine is like the Sixth Sense of comedies.
Article comments
1 - Robert Leu
I've seen all but one of these scenes, so I can say with some sort of authority that this list is perfect.