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54
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Neve
Campbell, Ellen Albertini Dow, Sherry Stringfield |
| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Miramax
Films
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| Kiddie Movie: |
Not at all.
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| Date Movie: |
Ehh.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Shane gets into Studio 54, heads to the balcony,
and there are two people doin' the nasty, and
that's just the start.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nothing really.
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| Action: |
It's a movie about a disco, I don't think so.
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| Laughs: |
Some funny one-liners.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
"Disco Dottie" at New Year's Eve.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
Something like: Greg says to Anita "I'm too
short and I don't suck cock." Anita replies, "Well,
there's nothing you can do about being short."
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| Directed By: |
Mark Christopher
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| Produced By: |
Richard N. Gladstein, Dolly Hall, Ira Deutchman
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54
A Movie Review |
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As a normal, everyday person,
sometimes you dream of being a star. You dream of getting
invited to all of the cool parties, hanging out with the
stars, and most of all, getting to go to those bars and
clubs that you read about in the gossip column. It's a world
that seems so much better than yours, but all you can do is
dream. "54" is a movie about one of those clubs, the
infamous Studio 54, but also a movie about the seeming
everyday people who are let into that dream.
The movie kinda goes like this: Shane O'Shea (Ryan
Phillippe) is 19 years old and thinks soap opera star Julie
Black (Neve Campbell) is a babe, but then, who doesn't?
Anyway, he's tired of the same old bar he and his friends go
to, really doesn't want to grow up to be like his "come home
from a blue collar day of work and have a beer" father, and
convinces his friends they should drive to the city and try
to get in Studio 54 because he heard Olivia Newton-John is
supposed to be there. They drive to the city where Steve
Rubell (Mike Myers) is letting the clientele in Studio 54.
He sees Shane and his buddy, calls over Shane, and lets him
in as long as he takes off his shirt. So Shane enters a
world most are only left to dream about, and then, low and
behold, gets a job as a busboy in that same world. You've
got to start living that dream somewhere.
Well, through Shane and his new friends, Greg (Beckwin
Meyer) who wants to be a bartender, and Anita (Salma Hayek)
who wants to be a singer, we get a glimpse at what having
that look to be let in Studio 54 is about. We see sex, we
see drugs, and we see disco in all its glory. We see it's
not usually what you know or how well you do your job, but
to get ahead in this world it turns into who you know or who
you'll blow. In Shane's case he comes through the ranks
quickly. He meets his dream girl, he has lots of sex, he
does drugs, but his new world which he's been thrown into
crashes around him because he finally sees that this dream
world isn't all it's cracked up to be.
"54" isn't the world's greatest movie, but it isn't that
bad and kinda shows that world only the few knew while many
dreamed about. Mike Myers as Steve Rubell is terrific. With
that happy but still evil looking grin of his, we see Rubell
as having the job he loves, throwing the world's greatest
party every night, but always letting you know it is his
party, and he has final say of who gets in. Phillippe does a
decent job as the naïve Shane, but I really enjoyed
Ellen Albertini Dow as "Disco Dottie," the normal grandma by
day but escaping the real world at night in a club with her
friends.
As I'm leaving "54" one dude behind me says to his friend
"That was a decent flick. Let's go do some disco dancin'."
Me, I'll give it 2 ½ stars out of 5. Catch it at a
matinee, or an evening show if you've seen everything else
out there.
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!
L8R!! |
