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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 0043396080195
Format: Full Screen, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD08019D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 1999
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1978
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Product Description:
Biography of the brief life and tragic death of Buddy Holly, one of the instrumental figures in the creation of rock and roll.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Rock historians and hard-core Buddy Holly fans can and do take issue with director Steve Rash's 1978 biopic of the Lubbock, Texas, rocker's life: the script liberally juggles details from Holly's brief but blazing career, replacing producer Norman Petty and Holly's original bassist and drummer with fictionalized composite characters. Yet the core of the film, and the reason it's definitely worth a look and listen, is Gary Busey's lusty performance in the title role, triumphing against what might have seemed miscasting.
The burly, lantern-jawed Busey steps into the lankier, narrow-faced Holly's blue suede shoes and dances off with the movie. At a time when live rock albums thought little of overdubbing mistakes in the studio, director Rash honored Busey's nervy gamble in performing these songs live, singing in his own raw voice and rumbling through his own approximations of Holly's guitar work. What's lost in precise verisimilitude is more than compensated by Busey's conviction and a palpable, almost ecstatic terror as he charges through Holly's wonderful songs before indifferent roller-rink audiences.
Other films have nailed the period more accurately through art direction or script, but Busey's authentic energy gives this movie an emotional veracity that's just right for this chapter in rock history. Still, for musical purposes, go straight to the source, Holly's wonderful recordings.--Sam Sutherland
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This is one of my favorite movies. Sadly, Sony/Columbia Tristar has taken the "flipper" DVD from 1999 off the shelves with both wide and full screen versions and replaced with a lackluster fullscreen only version instead(this one os from 2005). I was lucky enough to find an older one brand new for the same price as the fullscreen DVD. Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charle Martin Smith were great in this music biopic, some of it is, however fictitious. But even with that, this is one of my faves. It ... Read More
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This movie is the other side of la Bomba: the other young rock and
roll star who died in a plane crash in the winter of 1959.
The songs done by Gary Busey are pretty good, but not right on.
The idea that Richie Valenz and Buddy Holly might have gone on to
be even better known and regraded as rock and roll stars has
made people call the end of this movie :"the day the music died".
I liked the movie and if Elvis had been on the plane instead of getting drafted, ... Read More
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Who knows how big Buddy Holly's legacy would have been had he sang for decades and didn't die at such a young age? Almost every single he put out was a hit song. At least we have this movie to help remember him, even if all the facts aren't there (never believe any movie.).
Gary Busey did a very good job of playing Holly and at imitating his singing voice. Busey not only sings like Holly, he's a dead ringer for him in the looks department. Some thing was the actor''s best performance ... Read More
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good movie, just missed the mark on some areas of his life and dwelled on the less important. Great performances of the cast, just needed better writing
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