Eddie and the Cruisers
by Martin Davidson
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Actor: Helen Schneider, Joe Pantoliano, Matthew Laurance, Michael Par??, Tom BerengerDirector: Martin Davidson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Eddie and the Cruisers
DVD Review: A Very Good Rock 'N Roll Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one the best rock 'n roll movies ever made, but that doesn't say much since there haven't too many that much good to begin with. However, this IS good.
It features solid music by John Cafferty, whose "The Dark Side," is played quite a bit during the movie but is a great song and always enjoyable to hear. The movie also has interesting characters and a somewhat intriguing story. The story features a decent imitation of a Jim Morrison-type lead singer without getting too dramatic.
A very young Ellen Barkin is the female lead here. She looked better when she got a bit older. A young Joe Pantolione also is in here and Michael Pare was effective as the lead singer.
Don't listen to the national film critics who didn't care for the film. (Compare the "professional" review up top here against the "folks" down below. The public liked it the movie and most times, it's a better judge.
DVD Review: Early yrs. of Eddie & the Cruisers
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie with 60's rock music performed by Eddie and his first band. Don't miss the live Eddie near the end of the movie where b&w pictures are shown of Eddie.DVD Review: Eddie and The Cruisers
Summary: 5 Stars
The fastest shipping I have ever experienced. Excellent DVD.
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DVD Review: DVD Eddie and the Cruisers
Summary: 5 Stars
l was amazed to be able to find this movie......l was extremely please with the prompt service......and have enjoyed watching it several times since recieving it....it was an overall very enjoyable experience....DVD Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
Though I was a teen in the 80s, I never saw Eddie and the Cruisers until recently. I enjoyed John Cafferty's hit songs from the soundtrack years ago and wanted to like the movie. Sadly, I didn't think much of the movie and doubt I would have even when I was 14 years old at the time of its release. The story is quite unbelievable, particularly toward the end when a series of events revolves around main characters re-visiting a fantastical junkyard that has remained totally undisturbed for decades. The writing is cheesy, the acting is weak, and the characters are paper thin. The film also suffers from major sins as a music-themed movie. The lip syncing by the lead actor is overwrought and unconvincing and Tom Berenger looks ludicrous bopping exaggeratedly behind the piano he's obviously not playing though we're supposed to believe he is. Everything about the movie is merely average and its only likely appeal is nostalgia for those who saw it years ago and associate it with happy 80s memories.
Description of Eddie and the Cruisers
They say rock 'n' roll never dies, but one dark night in 1963, Eddie Wilson's car took a dive off aJersey bridge with the troubled rock idol at the wheel. His body was never found. Tom Berenger (Platoon), Michael Par?(c) (Streets of Fire) and Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love) star in this cool, compelling classic that really rocks! Twenty years after the lead singer (Par?(c)) of"Eddie and the Cruisers" disappeared, the band's songs are hotter than ever. And renewed interest in the band leads TV reporter Maggie Foley (Barkin) to pursue a tantalizing mystery: What if Eddie isstill alive? The circumstances surrounding his death are just shadowy enough to make it a distinct possibility, and someone (could it be Eddie?) has been ransacking the homes of surviving band members in a desperate search for tapes of the group's visionary, never-released album. As Maggie interviews the former "Cruisers," the pieces of the puzzle start to fit...but only until still deeper mysteries begin to surface.Perhaps best known for its faux Springsteen soundtrack, the 1983 Eddie and the Cruisers is a rock lover's fantasy run wild. The story finds a reporter (Ellen Barkin) tracking down rumors of an unreleased album by a band whose charismatic leader (Michael Par?) allegedly died years before. As she approaches surviving members--who have since gone on to other things--she gets different points of view on Eddie's life and artistic drive, and the mystery about that album deepens. The trouble with the film is simple: it's impossible to accept. Michael Par? is far from suitable to play a Jersey shore rocker with thematic pretensions toward Rimbaud that go back to the '60s, and the soundtrack by John Cafferty sounds like a hack's rendition of E Street Band magic. An all-around embarrassment. --Tom Keogh
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