 [Larger view] | Eddie and the Cruisers
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 A trip through, time, mystery, music and love | |
| The time:1982. A reporter, Ellen Barkin, discovers that a second, never released album, recorded by a ahead of it's time-1960's group is missing. Also missing is it's Jim Morrison like leader and lead singer (played by Micheal Pare). In the twenty years after eddie and the album disappeared, the group's members went on with their lives in different directions. As Ellen tracks them down, one by one, a deepening plot develops. I love this movie, very very much. It was first released in 82, but no one went to see it. I was going to see it then, but a family emergency kept me from seeing it before it vanished from the theaters. In 1984, HBO, then relatively new, played the movie four times a day. Suddenly, it was the biggest movie in America. Songs from the movie made it to the radio becoming hits, in a weird life imitating art way. I was so inspired that I went to the library to see if such a group ever existed. Of course it didn't, but I did find the novel from which the movie came. The book goes well with the movie and does more character development than the movie does. This is an excellent movie that the entire family can watch. Watch for excellent performances by the previously mentioned Ellen Barkin, as well as Tom Beringer and Joey Pantioliano (Sopranos). I own two copies, you should at least rent one. | |
| A movie anyone can enjoy | |
| Eddie and the Cruisers is an excellent movie. It gives a very good view of the idea that rock stars are more popular dead then alive. The cast does an excellent job portraying a rock band that just wants to make music(sal amato says"we're not great, we're just a bunch of guys from jersey") It is very clever how the there are two plots going on at once throughout the movie, one being the present day mystery of the lost tapes and the other the flashbacks of what really went on with band in there days of making music. John Cafferty composes a great soundtrack which helps promote one of the greatest thems of the movie, "words and music. Overall I think that any movie critic that insults or degrates this is to caught up with the blockbusters of hollywood to really see this movie for what its worth. | |
 A Really Great Movie! | |
| I'm guessing that this was a B-Movie which grew into a cult film, and I'm glad that it did! This movie really manages to pull you into a fantasy- where Eddie Wilson was 15 years ahead of his time...and nobody can find the missing tapes, of what WOULD have been his next album- had he lived. A news woman interviews the remaining members of Eddie's old band, to try and shine some light on the mis-understood stories, the blurred memories and complex ideas. To enjoy this film, you have to ignore the REAL history of rock n'roll and pretend that THIS is how it went. It was well paced, the acting was good and the music fits! As for DVD extras...you don't get very much, but that doesn't ruin this classic movie, now does it? ROCK ON, EDDIE!!!!! |
