A talented young woman is torn between her dreams and her family in this musical. Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) has been blessed with a beautiful voice and a gift for songwriting, but she's afraid to perform her songs in public, in part because her mother Emma (Whitney Houston), a former entertainer whose career brought her nothing but heartache, refuses to allow her daughters to sing outside of church. But Sparkle persuades her older sibling Sister (Carmen Ejogo) to sing one of her tunes at a talent show, and the reaction proves that Sister has star quality and Sparkle can write potential hits. An ambitious would-be manager, Stix (Derek Luke), persuades Sparkle and Sister to form a singing group with their sibling Dolores (Tika Sumpter), but while the act clicks wit audiences, the sisters have to contend with their angry mother, Sister gets caught up in a destructive relationship with a short-tempered comedian (Mike Epps), and Sparkle finds herself falling in love with Stix. Based on the 1976 musical of the same name, SPARKLE proved to be the last major project for Whitney Houston, who died while the film was in post-production; it was also the first feature film for AMERICAN IDOL champion Sparks. Product Identifiers UPC 0043396408074 Product ID 127465898 Product Key Features Format Blu-ray Disc Genre Drama Director Salim Akil Rating PG-13 Sub-Genre Musical Additional Product Features Leading Role Derek Luke, Carmen Ejogo, Ceelo Green, Tika Sumpter, Omari Hardwick, Mike Epps, Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks Signal Standard Blu-ray Disc Film Country USA Release Date 20121130 Display Format Widescreen Number of Discs 1 Edition New