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Movie Blurb by Shale
June 15, 2012
I don't go to plays. I think it was work related that I went to "P.S. Your Cat is Dead" decades ago. Otherwise the only time I see plays is when they are made into movies, like this one.
It is a musical if you didn't know, set in 1987 with the popular music we've all heard over the years, starting with Night Rangers' Sister Christian, as Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) a blond Okie girl heads off to LA for her fame & fortune as a singer.
In LA she meets an aspiring singer, Drew Boley (Diego Boneta) who is working tables at The Bourbon Room on Sunset Strip and gets her a job there. They have common interests, such as music and wanting to get noticed
The Bourbon Room is run by Dennis Dupree (Alec Baldwin) and his partner Lonny Barnett (Russell Brand). Not only is the club struggling but Patricia Whitmore (Catherine Zeta-Jones) the Mayor's wife is on a crusade with the churches to shut it and all of the strip down. Things come to a head when the club gets a big booking from famous, ageing rock star Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) to do his band's last gig there before going solo.
Of course all characters are portrayed over the top here. Catherine Zeta-Jones just looks evil with her purity. And Cruise has a scene where he and Rolling Stone writer Constance Sack (Malin Akerman) do a duet to Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is that is so sexually charged it barely stays PG-13
This movie didn't get good reviews from the aggregate critics on Rottentomatoes (43%), but about two-thirds of audiences liked it. It was entertaining and light, not to be taken seriously.
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Movie Blurb by Shale
June 15, 2012
I don't go to plays. I think it was work related that I went to "P.S. Your Cat is Dead" decades ago. Otherwise the only time I see plays is when they are made into movies, like this one.
It is a musical if you didn't know, set in 1987 with the popular music we've all heard over the years, starting with Night Rangers' Sister Christian, as Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) a blond Okie girl heads off to LA for her fame & fortune as a singer.
In LA she meets an aspiring singer, Drew Boley (Diego Boneta) who is working tables at The Bourbon Room on Sunset Strip and gets her a job there. They have common interests, such as music and wanting to get noticed
The Bourbon Room is run by Dennis Dupree (Alec Baldwin) and his partner Lonny Barnett (Russell Brand). Not only is the club struggling but Patricia Whitmore (Catherine Zeta-Jones) the Mayor's wife is on a crusade with the churches to shut it and all of the strip down. Things come to a head when the club gets a big booking from famous, ageing rock star Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) to do his band's last gig there before going solo.
Of course all characters are portrayed over the top here. Catherine Zeta-Jones just looks evil with her purity. And Cruise has a scene where he and Rolling Stone writer Constance Sack (Malin Akerman) do a duet to Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is that is so sexually charged it barely stays PG-13
This movie didn't get good reviews from the aggregate critics on Rottentomatoes (43%), but about two-thirds of audiences liked it. It was entertaining and light, not to be taken seriously.
See More Here:
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7287051#post7287051
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