Fame

Fame (2009) is a music drama by Kevin Tancharoen you can watch online on iFILM. This update of the 1980 cult favorite drops you inside New York's High School of Performing Arts, where teenage dancers, singers and actors fight for a shot at the spotlight.

Four years of auditions, rejections, first crushes and rehearsals that run long past midnight. Kay Panabaker plays a shy actress terrified of her own voice; Naturi Naughton is a singer ready to climb over anyone in her way; Asher Book and Kherington Payne carry the music and dance threads. Talent alone won't cut it — only the ones with real grit make it to graduation.

The faculty is stacked: Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally, Bebe Neuwirth and Charles S. Dutton play teachers who push their students hard enough to break them. The film is honest about one thing — the road to the stage is far less glamorous than the dream of it. Stream Fame (2009) online on iFILM.