Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 199 minutes Rating: Pg
There was a year's delay before this film which concerns the mysterious death of a fictional '60s rock star took off via video and cable TV but when it did the soundtrack album featuring such songs as 'On the Dark Side' and 'Tender Years' by John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band took off with it. To most the songs sounded like Bruce Springsteen clones but the music was appealing nonetheless. ~ William RuhlmannRecorded at RCA Recording Studios New York and The Village Recorder West Los Angeles California.Full performer name: John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band.Personell: John Cafferty (vocals guitar); Kenny Vance (vocals); Gary Gramolini (guitar); Michael 'Tunes' Atunes (saxophone); Robert Nicholas Cotoia (piano); Pat Lupo (bass); Kenny Jo Silva (drums).Additional personnel: Ben E. King (vocals); George Devons (percussion).
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 ParÃ(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 (ParÃ(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.
This Dvd will play on all Region 1 DVD players - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.
STREETS OF FIRE - DVD Movie
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 Paré) 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 Paré 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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