Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998

1998 in film

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) is an American

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 romantic drama, directed

Film director

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 by Gregory Nava

Gregory Nava

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 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

Frankie Lymon

Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group, The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid teens...

, 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

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 by Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Fall in Love stars Halle Berry

Halle Berry

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, Vivica A. Fox

Vivica A. Fox

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, Lela Rochon

Lela Rochon

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, and Larenz Tate

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, who portrays Lymon.