The Five Heartbeats (1991) scene A Heart is a House for Love

The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who cowrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film s main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, and Diahann Carroll. Bird and The Midnight Falcons witness the Heartbeats rehearsing for a competition and are concerned they could lose; Bird asks his girlfriend to invite her friends and boo The Heartbeats while cheering The Falcons. The announcer, a cousin of one of the Falcons, forces The Heartbeats to use the house piano player. Duck grows frustrated with the house piano player and shoves him off the piano stool. Eddie leads the group in a number that results in Bird s girlfriend fainting in Eddie s arms.