Filmmakers love a good fish-out-of-war story, and "The Sapphires" sure lands a whopper. It's the based-on-fact tale of four young Aboriginal women from the back end of Australia who are sick of being ...

A rowdy charmer from Australia, "The Sapphires" illustrates how the same old story — in this case, the one about a 1960s girl group and its struggles — can be freshened up through the novelties of ...

When the stars of “The Sapphires” met the women they played on film, there was only one thing missing. “We had first met them for lunch at a restaurant. And a few weeks ago, one of the aunties said to ...

Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires celebrates soul music and chronicles the adversity and struggles faced by a quartet of Australian aboriginal singers in the Vietnam War-era. The mother and aunt ...

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (WWJ) - When it comes to girl groups, who do you think of: Diana Ross and the Supremes, En Vogue, The Spice Girls, TLC? Well, after seeing "The Sapphires," you'll probably have ...

The Sapphires could be Australia’s version of Dreamgirls, a sentimental coming-of-age flick about a group of young black girls on the rise to fame singing Motown hits in the ’60s, but it’s not—it’s ...

Unbeknownst to most, in the 1960s, a group of aboriginal Australian singers took the initiative and inspiration of the American civil rights movement, and made it a launch pad for their own ...

Naomi Mayers, Beverly Briggs, Lois Peeler and Laurel Robinson have joined a chorus of condemnation over American distributor Anchor Bay's alteration of cover art for the hit Australian film. The ...

There are all kinds of reasons why ‘The Sapphires’ shouldn’t work as a piece of filmmaking. The storytelling is ragged around the edges. Some of the characters are decidedly one-dimensional. Scenes ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rated PG-13. 99 minutes. At the Chez Artiste. At the start of “The Sapphires,” about an Australian girl group that entertained troops during the Vietnam war, ...

There are all kinds of reasons why “The Sapphires” shouldn’t work as a piece of filmmaking. The storytelling is ragged around the edges. Some of the characters are decidedly one-dimensional. Scenes ...

There are all kinds of reasons why “The Sapphires” shouldn’t work as a piece of filmmaking. The storytelling is ragged around the edges. Some of the characters are decidedly one-dimensional. Scenes ...