Musical Film
- Bolletjes Blues, a Dutch film starring Negativ, released on March 23.
- The Cheetah Girls 2, a Disney Channel Original Movie watched by 8.1 million viewers in its premiere broadcast on August 25.
- Dreamgirls starring Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover and Jennifer Hudson, released on December 15
- Hannah Montana, a Disney Channel original series about a pop star, premiered on March 24.
- Happy Feet, a film with the voices of Nicole Kidman, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams and Anthony LaPaglia, released on November 17.
- High School Musical, a Disney Channel Original Movie watched by 7.7 million viewers in its premiere broadcast on January 20.
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold, a film directed by Jonathan Demme, released on February 10.
- Take the Lead, a film starring Antonio Banderas and Alfre Woodard, released on April 7.
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Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or film:
“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
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—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)