Synopsis: 2 buddies make hit music videos and re-launch the careers of the old guys who inspired them
Director: Bill Fishman
Actors: Tim Robbins, John Cusack
Date: 1988
How viewed: iplayer (shown on BBC2 12:50am 31st Jul 2011)
Rating: 3/5
David Meyer says:
A wild and intermittently hilarious conglomeration of music industry in-jokes, hip references and subtle physical humour..
I say:
It comes on like a cheap pilot for 'The Blues Brothers' (except that it was released 8 years later), with 2 young guys making successful music videos and working to re-launch the careers of some old singers, getting involved with money, guns and blackmail, and finishing up with a concert, but it 's so 80's... However, any film with John Cusack and Tim Robbins (even their first film) can't be all bad, and especially if you add in cult actors like Clu Gallagher, Doug McClure and Connie Stevens, and cult artists like Junior Walker, Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave) and Jello Biafra, and probably lots more folk I didn't recognise. And there are a several good moments, Cusack and Robbins dancing on the roof, and them saying to Walker and Moore 'If it wasn't for your influence, we'd know nothing about soul - we'd be family men, working for multi-nationals, earning 6-figure sums and driving LeBarons'. Hmmm, I empathise with that...
It comes on like a cheap pilot for 'The Blues Brothers' (except that it was released 8 years later), with 2 young guys making successful music videos and working to re-launch the careers of some old singers, getting involved with money, guns and blackmail, and finishing up with a concert, but it 's so 80's... However, any film with John Cusack and Tim Robbins (even their first film) can't be all bad, and especially if you add in cult actors like Clu Gallagher, Doug McClure and Connie Stevens, and cult artists like Junior Walker, Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave) and Jello Biafra, and probably lots more folk I didn't recognise. And there are a several good moments, Cusack and Robbins dancing on the roof, and them saying to Walker and Moore 'If it wasn't for your influence, we'd know nothing about soul - we'd be family men, working for multi-nationals, earning 6-figure sums and driving LeBarons'. Hmmm, I empathise with that...
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