What was eddie and the cruisers about

Reviews Eddie and the Cruisers. Roger Ebert September 23, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. I will name some of them: 1. Eddie could have surfaced as another rock and roller. Eddie could have been a Buddy Holly who never died, and he disappeared to escape discovery.

Eddie could have dropped out, in a grand existential gesture. Now playing. Luzzu Sheila O'Malley. South of Heaven Sheila O'Malley. Becoming Cousteau Tomris Laffly. All is Forgiven Sheila O'Malley. The Spine of Night Simon Abrams. Film Credits. Lifton Directed by Martin Davidson. Latest blog posts. The brooding frontman died tragically two decades earlier after he drove his car off a bridge.

But guess what? Right before the crash, the Cruisers had finished their second album. And those recordings — rejected by the label for being too artsy — have been missing ever since.

Somebody is looking for the lost album, but who? As in Kane , the contemporary action serves as a bridging device for flashbacks where things really get interesting.

Eddie, despite his working class background, desperately wants the Cruisers to be more than just a bar band. Or does he?

No body is found, fueling speculation that he might still be alive. His performance is rough and unmannered, as if they hired a real rock singer to play the part. Berenger is perfectly believable playing himself as a teenager and as a man of nearly But the brilliance of Eddie And The Cruisers lies in its narrative diversity. You want a treatise on aging and regret?

Got it! The fraternity house is actually the home of the Haverford college president. One of the characters states that they became a teacher at Vineland high school. The building used is a school for the mentally challenged and existed as such for a while. A lot of the actual high school students were used as extras in the movie and the high school was used for several shots as well.

Those moments are sometimes more meaningful without a bunch of dialogue. It was made to look pretty realistic though, since the band looked like they knew what they were doing. Star Wars, Goonies, Game of Thrones, from fantasy to science fiction to the dramatic and silly, Tom is all about the greatest and most insane stories that can be found.

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