A Star Is Born

About A Star Is Born

Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.

Frank Pierson's A Star Is Born is a 1976 music romance film. Its themes are fame, rock star, and fading star.

Barbra Streisand takes the lead as Esther Hoffman, Kris Kristofferson as John Norman Howard, Gary Busey as Bobbie Ritchie, and Oliver Clark as Gary Danziger. At 140 minutes long, it arrived in December 1976.

The screenplay is by Frank Pierson and Joan Didion.

A Star Is Born and The Invention of Lying make useful companions to A Star Is Born, all filed under romance. TMDB voters put it at 6.0 out of 10 across 251 votes and it carries a R rating.