I Wanna Hold Your Hand
by Robert Zemeckis
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Actor: Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Nancy Allen, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa SaldanaDirector: Robert Zemeckis
Brand: Universal Studios
Cinematographer: Donald M. Morgan
Writer: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Alexandra Rose
Producer: Bob Gale
Writer: Bob Gale
Producer: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Tamara Asseyev
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Movie Review: In Nineteen Hundred & Sixty Four...
Summary: 5 Stars
...the Beatles hit the US Shores!
I love this movie. It is pure fun and a delightful fan fiction about how several resourceful kids from Maplewood, N.J. manage to see the Beatles two days after they arrived in America, the day of their first appearance on Ed Sullivan which was February 9, 1964!
This is an excellent, brilliantly executed masterpiece. The kids borrow a limousine and are somehow able to sneak past the police barricade at the hotel where the Beatles are staying. Once they get the car parked, they split up and embark on ways to meet their idols. Susan Newman, daughter of Paul Newman does an exemplary job of playing a Beatle-buster until she meets a charming 11-year-old boy with a Beatle haircut who provides her with a change of heart.
The kids' madcap methods to secure passes to see their idols on Ed Sullivan on February 9, 1964 range from posing as a prostitute to winning the tickets on a radio quiz show. Beatle fans will laugh at how ludicrously easy the questions are ("who's the youngest Beatle? GEORGE! Which Beatle is left handed? PAUL!")
One lucky young girl, who is engaged to be married somehow sneaks into the Beatles' suite and hides under a bed. Prior to hiding, she steals cutlery and other hotel room objects the boys have touched. Seeing her erotic rapture upon securing these items is almost humorous.
The Beatles themselves appear in "ghost" or shadow form. Images and pictures of them on album covers can be found; the man who plays Susan Newman's father owns a record store and he sports a Beatle wig and plays Beatle records to drum up business. In the hotel suite scene, the "Beatles" enter the room, but you never see them from the knees up. Convincing accents and light banter is exchanged; the fan hiding under the bed faints in an erotic swoon when George steps out of his "trousers" so he can have them pressed and cleaned.
The characters are fun, believable and provide some Beatle history for the Beatle-blighted era otherwise known as the Late Nineteen Seventies, when it took all but an Act of Congress (or like the Paul McCartney song of that era, "With A Little Luck") even to see a Beatle on television, let alone be treated to a Beatle themed movie! The Ed Sullivan sequence was seemlessly and flawlessly done. The actor who played Ed Sullivan was quite believable and so was the set, which looked like the now famous Beatle venue.
A must have for Beatle fans and their counterparts alike. The ending is hilarious and will leave you singing Beatle songs for a long time to come! Get ready to do some singing, dancing and having some fun!
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