Hard to Hold
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Albert Salmi, Gregory Itzin, Janet Eilber, Patti Hansen, Rick Springfield Director: Larry Peerce Brand: Universal Studios Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline Producer: D. Constantine Conte Producer: Dana Miller Producer: Joe Gottfried Producer: Kurt Neumann Writer: Richard Rothstein Writer: Thomas Hedley Jr. DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 93 minutes DVD Release Date: 2010-06-01 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Universal Studios |
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Movie Reviews of Hard to Hold
Movie Review: this must be one of the most horrible movies I ever wached!
Summary: 1 Stars
Here's how it happened for me. In the recent years I started getting into Rick Springfield. I reached a point where the only album I didn't have was "Hard to Hold", which was pretty "hard to find" in record stores. When I finally discovered online shopping, I looked for the CD, and found the cost a bit high. In the process of browsing through this website, I also discovered that my only missing Springfield album had a movie to complement it. Before then, I had no idea there even was a movie! Seeing as how [at the time] the movie was much more reasonably priced then the album, I thought of buying it. However, when I looked at the mostly unfavorable reviews for it, I thought better; and when I actually read the plot summary of the movie, it sounded kind of corny, so I held off buying it, instead taking the suggestion some of the reviews gave--to purchase the album rather than the movie.
After a while, I was able to scrounge up some credit and eventually purchase the LP, despite its being overpriced. I listened to the LP many months and was impressed with it, despite perhaps that it WAS a bit shorter than it should have been and I felt as if it could have used more songs. Just the same, after listening to the LP for a while, It became hard for me to imagine that the movie could be all that bad. I thought that maybe the people giving it negative reviews were just being arrogant or something. Once again I looked through the product, but was still hesitant in buying it. I decided to rent it instead. Boy, am I glad I did! This just has to be one of THE most horrible movies I ever watched! It's so childish so adolescent--as if made by a bunch of third-graders suffering from some kind of aging sickness or something.
In a nutshell, this is the story: we have an opening scene showing Springfield performing one of the songs from "Hard to Hold" in a concert scene. Afterward, he is pursued in his dressing room by someone he's trying to avoid. In the process of avoiding her, ends up leaving his dressing room in a bath towel, eventually taking someone else's pants which don't fit him. He then leaves the concert hall in a fancy car wearing oversized pants that he must hold up with one hand, and gets into an accident with a woman, who he instantly develops a crush on, and wearing almost no clothing. (Gee, what a way to make a first impression!) Eventually, he obsesses over her and starts sending her flowers and gifts. At first, she plays hesitant, but eventually ends up swallowing it! Within twenty minutes of the movie, he already has her in the sack. The movie pretty much is about nothing more than Rick Springfield's weird obsession with a woman who he has a car accident with! I just wonder who on earth thought of this story.
With cheesy lines like "your very beautiful" repeated over and over again. A really dumb and contrived serenading scene, and an even sillier scene featuring Janet Eiber or Elder (i'm not sure which) doing some silly dance number, how this movie even saw the light of day I can't imagine. My favorite line of all was "stop harassing me!" Harassing her? Yeah right! More like stalking her! If this where real life, he'd have likely been arrested before he ever got to first base. This movie, rather than focusing on any realities at all about the struggles and trials of being a rock star, is nothing more than a silly juvenile cat and mouse story about Rick Springfield chasing after some chick he gets into an accident with half-naked. Lacking in this movie was any of the true depth and meaning we found in such songs as "Me and Johnny", "Celebrate Youth", "Jessie's Girl", and even "Taxi Dancing", which is actually featured in this movie. Any of the songs that ARE featured in this movie, do not fit into it at all. "Taxi Dancing", a really passionate and compelling song is played over a scene where Rick Springfield is playing pool and has nothing to do with the scene at all. The whole film is like that, really. I can't even believe someone who could write so many intelligent songs like the ones I mentioned (and others), would have been silly enough to take a role like this.
I'm merely writing this review to blow off some steam. I'm glad I never bought this movie. Now, it even seems as if it's impossible to buy anyway! (Considering it's about $100.00 now, though who knows why?) We all should be quite thankful. Don't spoil the image that the LP album creates by watching this 90 minute load of tripe! Instead, get the LP, listen to it many times on your ipod and create your OWN movie in your mind!