Why Do Fools Fall in Love is an American romantic drama, directed by Gregory Nava and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is a biographical film of the brief but intense life of R&B/Rock & Roll singer Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers for one year. Moreover, the film highlights the three women in his life, each of whom claim to have married Lymon and lay claim to his estate. Written by Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Fall in Love stars Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate, who portrays Lymon.... Little Richard also appears in the film as himself. Lymon was thirteen years old when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock . After Mr. Rock and Roll , Lymon started a solo singing career, but it all fell apart. Lymon's career was over by the time he was eighteen years old, and he died of a heroin overdose seven years later.
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| Release date: | August 28, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Gregory Nava |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joe Roth, Roger Birnbaum |
| Editor: | Nancy Richardson |
| Music by: | Stephen James Taylor |
| Cinematography: | Edward Lachman |
| Screenplay by: | Tina Andrews |
| Estimated budget: | $7,500,000 |
| Genre: | Musical, Biography |