Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save ...
Director: Allan Arkush
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern, Ed Begley Jr.
Lori Eastside ... choreographer: "Rockercise"
Watched online, poor print.
19 songs in the Soundtracks; one of the blues songs is performed by multiple artists onstage, but that's not reflected on the Soundtracks page. I couldn't tell which of the songs were performed onscreen, but a lot were.
Many familiar names and faces in this film.
We see many performers at a New Year's Eve concert, from many different styles of rock. The focus is on the venue, its runners, and the nemesis that's trying to demolish it for other purposes.
I was amused by 1 joke: The elder statesman of the performers, an old bluesman, who performed at the opening of venue 15 years earlier, had requested the venue hire a backup blues band for him. Instead, they got a Jews band (one member with Hasidic hair), and when they meet the bluesman they sing a barbershop style "Hello", using the word "Shalom" instead. I found it cute. I didn't connect with anything else in the film.
I was worried that MM would do something grotesque that I would regret seeing, but I didn't notice it.
This is just more promotion of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Totally skippable.
distr. Embassy Pictures, dir. Arkush; 5
