Side by Side (1982)

Original title

Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family

Directed by

Russ Mayberry

Genre

biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV movie tells the true story of the Osmond family's early years. It shows how parents Olive and George raised their famous singing children.

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What happens

Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family is a 1982 American made-for-television biographical film about the earlier years of the famed entertainment family, starring Marie Osmond as matriarch Olive Osmond, and Joseph Bottoms as patriarch George Osmond. This film was released on VHS tape in 1998 but has never had an official DVD issue. Side by Side would be followed 19 years later by Inside the Osmonds, which focuses on the family's breakthrough years as pop stars with an entirely new cast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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