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Movie Reviews of Satisfaction
Movie Review: Good Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I have never seen this movie and heard about it from a friend. I decided to order it and I really enjoyed it. It is a movie that I will watch again.Movie Review: Julia Roberts Movie Debut
Summary: 3 Stars
Satisfaction is more notable for being Julia Roberts' first credited movie appearance than the actually movie. Although the DVD cover prominently features Ms. Roberts, she has a small supporting role as Justine Bateman is clearly the star of the film. Ms. Bateman's character Jennie Lee leads a four girl, one guy rock band who head from the city to a shore town and set up a summer long residency at a club owned by Martin Falcon who is played by a young Liam Neeson. Jennie and Martin have something of a romance, but it never gets off the ground. Ms. Roberts' character, Daryle, plays bass and wants to rise above her lower class roots and find someone sophisticated. Britta Phillips plays the band's guitarist, Billie, who is stoned all the time, Trini Alvarado plays the drummer, Mooch, who dresses in black and is a street smart tough girl and Scott Coffey plays the token guy, Nickie, who plays keyboards and has a thing for Mooch. The plot is paper thin and is big on clichés like following your dreams, but the cast is incredibly likeable and it is fun little movie for anyone whose nostalgic for 80's teen flicks.Movie Review: Once in a While a Bit of Nostalgia Suits the Palate
Summary: 3 Stars
SATISFACTION is not a great movie by any shakes, but taken for what it was meant to be - a slightly naive tale of a girls' band that has a summer of adventure, love and opportunity for the big time nut opts instead to become just a group of life-long friends - it is a well done bit of pastiche. Thanks to the simple script by Charles Purpura and to the sensitive direction of Joan Freeman the little story works well.
The interesting aspect of the film is the cast. The band consists of leader Justine Bateman with Trini Alvarado, Britta Phillips, Scott Coffey as the token male, Deborah Harry and yes, the movie debut of Julia Roberts! Liam Neeson serves as the love interest for Justine Bateman's character and Michael DeLorenzo has a small part, too. The music is fun and the cast commits to the idea of the film well. Strange to see a film from 1988 with the established stars disappearing and the 'newcomers' taking flight. Grady Harp, December 06
Movie Review: satisfaction
Summary: 3 Stars
I have enjoyed this movie since it first came out. I'm from SC, near the Charleston beaches, and the fact that this was filmed on Isle of Palms just makes the whole movie even cooler. I went to the original Windjammer (where the band in the move played) before Hurricane Hugo took it out in 1989. They built a bigger and better Jammer, but the old one has never been forgotten. I got this movie for my dad's birthday. He just loves Julia Roberts.Movie Review: Must Have Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Summary: 2 Stars
If you've always suspected that combining elements from "Times Square" (1980), "Josie and the Pussycats" (2001), and "Summer of `42" (1971) would be an extremely bad idea, look no further than "Satisfaction" for confirmation. Although "Times Square" fans (the film from which "Satisfaction" steals the most) will frequently cringe during the viewing experience, the fusion of these three films is not a totally bad idea.
It did give Trini Alvarado, eight years later, a chance to play the tough girl Nicky Marotta part, the character she played against in "Times Square". Although she plays her less like Robin Johnson did and more like Tara Reid's Cybil in "Girl" (1998). An underrated actress, Alvarado carries too much baggage (nice girl type-casting and too sweet a face) into this role to even begin to sell it. A much better idea that might have saved the film would have been for her and co-star Justin Bateman to switch parts. Bateman is capable of looking mean and is really too limited as an actress for a part with the degree of dimensionality of Jennie Lee.
I've never quite grasped the popularity of Julia Roberts but for her mega-fans "Satisfaction" is a must see. The script doesn't give her much to work with but it is an opportunity to see her when she was this young. Of course there is some retrospective perverse amusement to be had at the idea of Roberts and Liam Neeson playing second banana's to the talent challenged Bateman,
Britta Phillips' career rocketed forward from this film with 65 episodes as the voice of the title character in "Jem and the Holograms". Nice voice, excellent casting choice, and a cute performance; she and Chris Nash at least manage to give a fair amount of authenticity to the production.
Director Joan Freeman of Streetwalkin' (1985) fame has never done another feature; after these casting decisions it is not hard to figure out why. Maybe she is just another innocent victim of an Aaron Spelling production, she clearly was not a budding Allan Moyle. Likewise Screenwriter Charles Purpura; although his script is no worse than a lot of stuff currently getting feature treatment and the outdated slang no doubt sounded less lame in 1988.
Although full of terrible music (covers of classic rock tunes performed slightly worse than when arranged for your high school band's halftime show) the film did connect with its primary target audience, discontented teenage girls who were not so disillusioned that they could not still get off on an identification jag with a group of squeaky clean girl rockers. Those looking for a more real "growing up is painful " experience should stick with "Times Square" and the more recent "Pretty Persuasion".
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.