A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995)

October. 22,1995

7.2

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This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. The movie covers her child stardom, her teen idol years, her singing career with big hits like "Tall Paul", her romance with Paul Anka, her classic beach party films with Frankie Avalon, and her first marriage. It also shows her large comeback in the late 1980s and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.

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Cast

Eva LaRue as Annette Funicello

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Frank Crudele as Joe Funicello

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Reviews

Micransix

1995/10/22

Crappy film

Huievest

1995/10/23

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Keeley Coleman

1995/10/24

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Marva

1995/10/25

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,