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.

GREAT COMMENTS. love to see most are promising,positive and true to heart comments,as i am watching it again today with a friend on VH-1 and i love it each time it come on.I shall order it finally on DVD this 2011.love it! my teen girl,actually love it just as much as i.she realize what as she say"real music is mommie"she knows! even if i was born not till in the 70s i see what and Understand,being a nyc artist/songwriter myself,know what REAL music is,and beyond the tragedy etc.that real music is the temptation songs throughout,as well as a few other great groups,but they are clearly at the top,RIP to all who have died,as i think 1 is left,so glad they left us with such great musica por vida,siempre...por eternidad.A beyond great film.1 of the best,ever,and i mean EVER done.Period.....so i give it 10 stars easy. adios!

I love, love, love this movie. It's awesome and the actors who played the Temptations were incredible! I loved Christian Payton and Terron Brooks, and the others were great too. It's a sad movie, and also a funny one too. I know every single line of that movie, and every time I watch it, the part almost at the end when Paul kills himself makes me cry every freaking time. I just love that movie, it's my favorite. The director did a great job. I would definitely recommend this movie to everybody who loves The Temptations. I have two copies of this movie, so I have a backup if the other one gets scratched up. This movie is so good that i watch it almost every night and I still don't get bored by it, it's that good.

I loved this movie, I have seen it 3 times. At the end when Smokey Robinson sings "goodbye my buddy, goodbye my friend"..........oh my gosh the tears just roll!!!! I would watch it again. To see these men work so hard to get where they got was so satisfying. ANd the characters looked so much like the real people. I just loved the whole thing....and you could just see the bond that they had. They loved each other, even through the bad times. When David Ruffin fell on hard times, they still loved him. Otis was only looking out for the group, you could see in his face he hated sending him away. SO to the Temptations, may you always be in our hearts..........