Eddie & Cruisers [VHS]
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Movie Review: Eddie and the Cruisers
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my brother for Christmas and he loved it. Thanks!Movie Review: Eddie and the Cruisers
Summary: 5 Stars
a great movie.it is also a very sad movie.one of the best soundtracks.Movie Review: "Eddie Cruises"
Summary: 5 Stars
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Movie Review: "From out of the shadows she walks like a dream..."
Summary: 4 Stars
Along with 1984's pop-rock opera cult classic STREETS OF FIRE, EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS (1983) marks the high-water mark of Michael Pare's less-than-stellar acting career. Pare, a late-blooming denizen of the Clenched Jaw School of Acting, is Eddie, the iconoclastic leader of a North Jersey 1950s Doo-Wop band, a one-hit wonder, The Cruisers, whose 1963 hit, "On The Dark Side" has been rediscovered, circa 1983, and is leading to a popular Cruisers revival.
Two decades later, Maggie (Ellen Barkin) is a music reporter who is indefatigable in hunting down the surviving band members, most of whom are leading exceptionally colorless lives. She is driven by rumors of a "lost" Cruisers album, "A Season In Hell," which is reputedly earth-shattering.
As the story unfolds through a series of flashbacks, we meet Eddie, an egotistical greaser, the archetypal Leader of The Pack. His band is rounded out by his eye-candy girlfriend, Joanne (singing vocals), his Clarence Clemons-inspired jazz-sax friend Wendell, Sal Amato, a marginally talented guitarist from the old neighborhood, Kenny the drummer, Doc the manager, and Frank Ridgway (Tom Berenger), the lyricist "Word Man." While the rest of the band trails far behind Eddie's talent and vision, for his part, Word Man introduces Eddie to Verlaine and Rimbaud the disappeared nineteen year old Romantic Poet who committed "artistic suicide" and who serves as the direct inspiration for "A Season In Hell." The obvious connection to Rimbaud aside, Eddie "On The Dark Side" is also a clear fictionalization of The Doors' Jim Morrison, who found his inspiration in Celine's "Journey To The End of The Night."
Although Eddie refers to Wendell as his "best friend" he has a much deeper sibling-like relationship with Word Man, whom he alternately ignores, embraces, and disparages as the mood takes him. Despite Eddie's rough edges, he has the soul of an artist, and respects Word Man as he respects no one else.
After the avant-garde musical montage that is "A Season In Hell" is bluntly rejected by the Cruisers' label, Eddie, Rimbaud-cum-Morrison-like, suffers a mysterious death. The "A Season In Hell" tapes vanish. Eddie's body is, unsurprisingly, never found.
Despite the transparency of the plot, EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS is an engaging film that has acheived cult status in the twenty-some years since its release. The music, provided by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, is stylistically essentially reworked Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, but it holds up well. Although EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS was a critical flop dismissed as having an "impossible" storyline (no such thing), it was a popular, if minor, success that spawned a sequel, the predictably titled EDDIE LIVES. A far better effort than it sounds, EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS is a great Sunday afternoon popcorn-and-soda flick that you will want to watch from time to time.
Movie Review: This Film is a Disaster
Summary: 1 Stars
Tom Berenger must have been desperate for work when he signed up for this embarrassment of a film. It has the feel and tone of the kind of made for television movie you might watch out of sheer boredom and exhaustion on a Sunday afternoon when you're too tired either to locate the remote or to fire a bullet at the television screen. The acting is wooden and unnatural, and the music, which is supposed to be awesome, sounds curiously like a bad rip-off of Springsteen, even though the flashbacks in the film (when most of the musical scenes occur) are set, for the most part, in 1963, when NOTHING sounded like Springsteen. Worse yet, the sets do not look like 1963. This is very clearly a cheap production, doomed from the start by an awful script, terrible acting, and a devil may care attitude about capturing the feeling of an era. Here's the premise of the film: years after Eddie, the tempestuous and dumb lead singer of the Cruisers, has disappeared (he died in a car accident, but his body was never recovered), a reporter decides to write a story about the band. She has a theory that Eddie is still alive and believes that the band may be on the verge of a renaissance, if the missing final recordings, named A Season in Hell, can be located. She forces her presence into the lives of the remaining band members, who are, by the way, dull as dirt, to piece together the band's history. The reporter is so creepy and annoying that she'd probably have a restraining order slapped on her, nowadays. Ironically enough, A Season in Hell describes quite acccurately the viewing experience.