A low-budget valentine to big-budget Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and '50s, this affectionate homage to dreamy movie romances is a sweet-natured charmer in its own right. Modern-day New York City cabaret singer Billie Golden (co-writer Isabel Rose) does her best to live a Technicolor dream of vintage clothes and glamorous gigs. But she and her pianist (Sean Arbuckle) can't even keep their job at a threadbare airport lounge; practical proprietor Sal (Victor Argo) decides a DJ would be cheaper and more popular than their antiquated act and fires them. Like her parents, who had their own cabaret career, Billie's signature song is the ruefully optimistic "I Can't Give...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
99 mins