The Buddy Holly Story
by Steve Rash
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Actor: Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, Don Stroud, Gary Busey, William JordanDirector: Steve Rash
Brand: Sony
Producer: Edward H. Cohen
Producer: Frances Avrut-Bauer
Producer: Fred Bauer
Producer: Fred T. Kuehnert
Writer: Alan Swyer
Writer: John Goldrosen
Writer: Robert Gittler
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Buddy Holly Story
Movie Review: Busey Delivers Big Time
Summary: 5 Stars
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 ever, and you get no argument from me. He did the Texan proud, as did actors Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith, who played the two members of Holly's backup group, "The Crickets."
Music-wise, there are some of Holly's better-known songs in the beginning of the film and its really good with a strong finish at the end as Holly and the boys are shown in Iowa in their last concert together. I'm also glad they ended the film on an upbeat note with that Iowa concert, instead of dwelling on his tragic accident. The ending could have been a real downer, but they didn't let it be.
Summary of The Buddy Holly Story
Gary Busey gives an electrifying Oscar -nominated performance (Best Actor-1978) as Buddy Holly - the musical genius from Lubbock Texas who changed the tune of rock n roll history. With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm & blues Buddy Holly and the Crickets (Don Stroud Charles Martin Smith) catapulted to national stardom in just three short years with such hits as "That ll Be The Day" "It s So Easy" and "Peggy Sue." By the age of 22 Holly had it all: chart-topping singles a beautiful wife and international acclaim - until tragedy ended a brilliant career...but not his music. In an Academy Award -winning score adaptation the most influential rock n rollers of all time and the legacy he left behind.System Requirements:Starring: Gary Busey Don Stroud Charles Martin Smith Conrad Janis and William Jordan. Directed By: Steve Rash. Running Time: 114 Min. Color. This film is presented in both "Standard" and "Widescreen" formats. Copyright 1999 Columbia TriStar Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:? UPC:?043396080195Rock 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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