Donald "Duck" Matthews, Anthony "Choirboy" Stone, J.T. This film was also submitted for Academy Awards consideration in October, 2007, and has been featured in such publications as UPI, Reuters and Entertainment News Weekly. Her all grown up now...yes she is! [10], Due to the nature of the film, music montages were often used to progress the plot; critics considered this a major flaw. }); © Copyright 2015 . She still performs live and releases new music periodically. [12] The original screenplay had been inspired by the lives and careers of Motown group The Temptations, and Townsend had met with former lead singers David Ruffin and Eddie Kendrick with the intention of hiring them as technical advisors. See all photos. J.T. [11], The Five Heartbeats was originally set up as a development deal at Warner Bros. in 1988, with Keenan Ivory Wayans, his brother Damon, and others tapped to star. In addition to her music and acting careers, Tressa is also getting her modeling on as a full-figured model who has been featured in various magazines such as Plus Model Mag, Ebony, Jet, Venus Divas Mag, Variety Mag, for E’Lon Cosmetics as their spokes model. Bird and The Midnight Falcons witness the Heartbeats rehearsing for a competition and are concerned they could lose; frontman Victor "Bird" Thomas asks his girlfriend to invite her friends and boo The Heartbeats while cheering The Falcons. Her other film credits include Flatliners and Message In A Bottle. The Five Heartbeats reunite in front of their families and friends, as they try to show off their old moves.
The musical review is directed by acclaimed actress and comedian Kathy Najimy. This led Duck to estrange himself from the Heartbeats and his brother for years.
Her name is Tressa Thomas and she was 12 years old when she starred in the film and killed it with her version of “We Haven’t Finished Yet?” She stole the show as Robert Townsend’s character “Duck’s” baby sister. [12] The former was not cast due to budget concerns and the latter passed on the role as it was felt to be too small. The film is an official selection of the 2009 Hollywood Black Film Festival.Tressa is currently in pre-production on her 2010 Academy Awards short film submission, "I Gathered With..." - which she will produce and make her directorial debut.In April 2009, Tressa is starring in "Back To Bacharach And David" at The Music Box @ Fonda Theater in Hollywood, CA. She was instrumental in arranging the vocals for "We Haven't Finished Yet". Okay family, how many of you remember the lil’ girl who was sangin’ (yes we said sangin’…LOL) in The Five Heartbeats? Pause. ", http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/11969/castcrew.jhtml, http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/11969/details.jhtml, http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/11969/plot.jhtml, http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?search=the+five+heartbeats&x=0&y=0/, http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?search=the+five+heartbeats&x=0&y=0, http://www.answers.com/topic/the-five-heartbeats, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_heartbeats/?name_order=asc#mo, http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910329/REVIEWS/103290301/1023, https://books.google.com/books?id=5YWgxVkJmT4C&pg=PA220&dq=the+five+heartbeats&lr=&sig=ACfU3U0Nl-quxN9UYyRjd5Q6i_fBRfUcNw#PPA220,M1, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_heartbeats/#, https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313030,00.html, http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,86336,00.html, http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fiveheartbeats.htm, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_heartbeats/?name_order=asc#, http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20018/five-heartbeats-15th-anniversary-special-edition-the/, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thefiveheartbeatsrhinson_a0a9e7.htm, https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313751,00.html, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101891/awards, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Five_Heartbeats&oldid=966713426, Articles with dead external links from June 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Her other film credits include Flatliners and Message In A Bottle.
[16] Many of the tracks are credited to fictional characters in the film as opposed to the actual vocalists. Tressa's feature film debut was the Robert Townsend film, The Five Heartbeats, in which was featured with R&B legend Patti LaBelle, on the movie's soundtrack for the song, "We Haven't Finished Yet". Appearance is important too. The group goes on the road, but the travel is marred by racism and poor living conditions. Duck comes to suspect his fiancé, Tanya Sawyer, is having an affair with Choirboy. The Dells sang and recorded the vocals as the actors lip synced. In 2007, she produced The Yesterday Pool, a short film starring Academy Award winner, Mickey Rooney.
She also played the singing role of Ruth Brown in NBC's made for TV movie "The Little Richard Story.
Well, in case you were wondering where she’s been and what she’s doing now, we’ve found her and she is now 39 years old, still doing her thing. _taboola.push({ Her name is Tressa Thomas and she was 12 years old when she starred in the film and killed it with her version of “We Haven’t Finished Yet?” She stole the show as Robert Townsend’s character “Duck’s” baby sister.