dunsuls-1 Being a white kid from Brooklyn there's no way I can know how accurate this movie is although it's based on a book by a real member of the group and withstood court suits from other family members of the group.Once I heard a quote,"If it ant't that way,it should have been"and so it is with this film.Released in 1998 and running 150 minutes it was first a TV miniseries and now a DVD.Besides the great music of the Temps,the acting is so fine it's divine. Leon IS David Ruffin and Terron Brooks IS Eddie Kendricks .Everyone else is fine as well.The movie starts out at HS in Detroit and ends with a funeral of a member with a cameo of Smokey singing at the burial.In between is the story of 2 groups members forming what became the temps and all the ups and downs that went with it.You listen to the music and stay for the story.The story only touched briefly on the various infidelities of members while focusing more on the group dynamics and lack there of.My favorite scene was the group stopping down south on a bus tour at a segregated HS dance,complete with a rope across the gym to keep whites and blacks separate while both sides enjoyed the music.Sad to think it was once really like that.

Jeffrey R. Dzik The Temptations lives and story as a group had so many ups and downs, joys and tragedies, achievements and disappointments, it made for such a wonderful movie. I have seen it dozens of times, moved to joy, tears and getting up to sing every time. I want to come to the defense of Otis Williams. When one writes a movie, a play or a book, it is written by someone who sees the events as THEY see it. May not always be factual or how the other members or their families saw the events or the feelings they had towards them. Writers and producers will rearrange some events and perhaps toy with the time lines a bit for dramatic purposes. You can't take any biographical movie and be certain all is totally accurate. I don't think, according to various sources I have read, that the movie was that far from the way it happened. You have to make a movie in a reasonable amount of time otherwise it'll run for hours, as long as this one was. The actors were fabulous and they did such a masterful job dubbing and choreographing the music. If indeed, some events were altered a bit, I believe their achievements were well laid out and the tragic demises close as to how it happened. I am a big Motown fan and R & B fan of the mid 60's, 70's and early 80's. I developed a much larger appreciation for the Temptations with this movie and have loaded their Anthology album on my I-Pod. I thank the producers and Otis Willialms for that. The other members no longer with us are sorely missed. I am a huge fan of all who did lead in many of their hits; Eddie, David and Dennis.

lotus_chief I'm a 28 year old who happens to have an old soul; and LOVE the classic R&B of the 60s, 70s & 80s. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before I watched The Temptations. After watching it, however, I must say that it left a bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, I wasn't around during this time so I don't even have a story/rumor of my own to compare to what's portrayed here. But seeing that Otis Williams is the only surviving original member, that it's based on the book that he wrote, and that he's one of the executive producers of this film...there's a HUGE slant in his favor; making this film very disingenuous.The other people involved in this story, including Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, and Paul Williams, obviously can't defend themselves or tell their side of the story; so anything shown here has to be taken with a grain of salt. Otis comes off as a complete saint. Oh, okay.....so he cheated on his wife; compared to everybody else's problems that's nothing. Not to trivialize adultery one bit, the image being portrayed here about him being the glue that kept the group together, and him being the level head throughout....I could not help but be VERY skeptical about what I was seeing. I must say that it left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I know everything about "artistic license" and whatnot, but this is too much. How did Otis know that Paul drove by Hitsville before killing himself? Or that David was at a crack-house, therefore missing the reunion show? His character narrates some of these scenes as if he was a fly on the wall while they were happening. There are a few scenes like this, which just SCREAMS 'bulls_*t'.I find it basically deplorable that he would slant everything in his favor like this. I find a lot of what's portrayed here hard to believe. As far as him being the anchor of the group; he never sang lead in a song, he was always backup singing and wasn't even that great a dancer. Yet HE calls ALL of the shots and doesn't fall victim to ANY of the pressures of show business (minus adultery)?? Insanity. With all of that said, the acting was brilliant; Leon and Christian Payton especially.The Temptations' influence on music and inner turmoil alone makes for an intriguing story for a film. Unfortunately for us, we can only get one side of the story, and I for one refuse to swallow this pill; as it just reeks of inaccuracies and self-serving fluff by Otis Williams.5/10

jglo67 I have watched the Temptations Movie over and over again, I must say i love this movie, what amazes me is i really never seen the actors in too many movies, but these guys should have all been given some award for the acting they did, they had the moves down like jamie foxx had ray charles, this movie should have went to the big screen it was so sad it did not, i mean the dancing was impeccable, in have read anything i could find on this group, they had such tragic lives, paul was ill from sickle cell, and he was shot in head , the opposite side, meaning he could not have shot himself, but the movie still did an excellent excellent job, i vote for the big screen it's never too late they repeat movies all the time,leon i swear had David ruffin in his soul, talk about a tear jerker, i went to mr. ruffin's grave and i intend to go paul's too eddie is in birmingham, melvin in l.a. and thank God Otis is still with us, I love them all..