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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Joyful Noise’ With Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton
CHICAGO – In our latest music edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Joyful Noise” starring Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah! Star Jeremy Jordan will appear for a post-screening Q&A!
“Joyful Noise” also stars Keke Palmer, Courtney B. Vance, Kris Kristofferson, Jesse L. Martin, Judd Lormand, Chloe Bailey, Cait Johnson, Dixie Light, Valencia Barnes, Maurice Johnson, Dexter Darden and Steve Warren from writer and director Todd Graff.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Joyful Noise” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the synopsis for “Joyful Noise”:
Oscar nominees Queen Latifah (“Chicago,” “Hairspray”) and Dolly Parton (“Transamerica,” “Steel Magnolias,” “Nine to Five”) star in “Joyful Noise”: a funny and inspirational story of music, hope, love and renewal.
The small town of Pacashau, Ga. has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Sacred Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart.
Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried and true translates to tired and old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer).
The sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more heat between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can overcome their differences and find a common voice, they and their choir may make the most joyful noise of all.
The movie trailer for “Joyful Noise” can be watched now below.
To win your free advance-screening movie tickets, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com Web site account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having a Web site account with a valid e-mail address is required to win. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this question:
What’s your best memory that’s tied with a song?
This Hookup is simple! Just submit your comment below and we will award 50 admit-two tickets randomly via e-mail for our “Joyful Noise” Hookup. Good luck!
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Joyful noise
Being a kid listening to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” in the car with my friends. None of us could sing but we would be singing to top of our lungs. LOL
What’s your best memory that’s tied with a song?
It’s a toss up between my boyfriend asking me to work on us growing together and get married listening to Unbreakable and me working out on the patio listening to Dream Lover by Mariah Carey while stretching with my legs up, up in the air when the Google truck drove by recording the houses and streets—I was like O_o, but that was funny!
best memory
dancing to beat it at a disco in all leather
DJ Spun-G
My dj days over 20 yrs ago. That house music, the hot mix 5, rockin the party ALL night!!!
best memory
These are the days, A great new car
Best memory tied to song?
Our first dance at our wedding reception on July 23rd! And our random trip to keywest for my wifes birthday! Fun dancing and running around duval that night!!
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender by Elvis Pressley reminds me of my first boyfriend when I was 14 1/2.
Best Memory tied to a song
My best memories tied to a song is the to the song one in a million by Larry
Grahma. This song was playing while we were at the fountain in the park and my spouse told me he loved me and he want to get married. And of course he told me that I was one in a million.
Graduating
Graduating
Best Memory Tied to a Song....
Last Dance by Donna Summer…that is the song to which I met my husband 0f 29 years!