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- 2020
- TV-PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 34 m
- 2020
- TV-PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 34 m
Summary The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991.
- 2020
- TV-PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 34 m
- 2020
- TV-PG
- Disney+
- 1 h 34 m
Howard
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Summary The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
76
92% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Howard serves as a fitting celebration of that life and career. It's a chance for those who knew him to pause and fondly look back, in a way that merely adds to an appreciation of the parade that he helped start.
Howard does a fine, loving job tracing who he was as a gay Jewish boy growing up in Baltimore; as an aspiring playwright and theatrical impresario, schooled at Boston University, Goddard College in Vermont, the summer theater program at Tufts University, and a graduate student at Indiana University; and as a hungry young New York City transplant, eager to make his mark.
By the end of Howard, it’s the songs we’ll never hear that may haunt us most.
Blunt honesty and rare introspection sets Howard apart from the usual cut-and-paste trips down memory lane.
There’s something exciting about a film that immerses you in the life of a creative artist, and so it proves with this documentary about Howard Ashman.
Mostly it will just make you hungry to revisit Ashman’s work. That’s perhaps not the intended result of this fond tribute/merely serviceable survey of a too-short career – but it’s not necessarily a bad one.
The Ashman story itself is the stuff of a Broadway musical. It just needed some music—what’s here is doled out in penurious and unsatisfying morsels.
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Production Company
Stone Circle Pictures
Release Date Aug 7, 2020
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating TV-PG
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Awards
Annie Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Heartland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
