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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Paul Simon (writer)
Release Date:
3 October 1980 (USA) more
Tagline:
Rock 'n' roll will give you some laughs...but it won't do you any favors.
Plot:
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
I Am Afraid Of Harmony Korine
(From FilmExperience. 10 September 2009, 8:52 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Coulda-Shoulda-etc. more (11 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Paul Simon | ... | Jonah | |
| Blair Brown | ... | Marion | |
| Rip Torn | ... | Walter Fox | |
| Joan Hackett | ... | Lonnie Fox | |
| Allen Garfield | ... | Cal van Damp (as Allan Goorvitz) | |
| Mare Winningham | ... | Modeena Dandridge | |
| Michael Pearlman | ... | Matty Levin | |
| Lou Reed | ... | Steve Kunelian | |
| Steve Gadd | ... | Danny Duggin | |
| Eric Gale | ... | Lee-Andrew Parker | |
| Tony Levin | ... | John DiBatista | |
| Richard Tee | ... | Clarence Franklin | |
| Harry Shearer | ... | Bernie Wepner | |
| Kate Pierson | ... | Herself (as The B-52s) | |
| Fred Schneider | ... | Himself (as The B-52s) |
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Runtime:
98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | USA:R
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During the film's credits, Paul Simon & co. (The Jonah Levin Band) are shown driving through what is ostensibly a highway between Cleveland's airport and The City. The footage is actually Route 22, in Union, New Jersey. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Jonah and Matty practice baseball in the park, the ball is returned to Jonah by someone obviously taller than eight-year-old Matty. more
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References Mrs. Miniver (1942) more
Soundtrack:
Late In The Evening more
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This reminds me of another movie involving intricate characters, great music, and a radio station. It was called "Choose Me" (1984), and was I have to say a much better-coherent-film.
One Trick Pony starts off promisingly, but falls short as some sequences seem to be extended in order to accomodate Paul Simon's excellent music (ie, long pans across city scapes as Simon and his band ride from gig to gig in their van). It also looks as though large chunks were edited out, in order to cut it's running time down; Such as when Simon meets Mare Winnigham (Saint Elmo's Fire) after a gig, then ends up sleeping with her, then is seen leaving her house without as much as a goodbye...Maybe that was the point, to show us his ephemeral lifestyle on the road. But I dunno though, as Simon's acting also leaves a lot to be desired. But then, he's a singer.
Blair Brown (Altered States)is good as his ex wife who he seems to sleep with whenever he's depressed about something(???). But otherwise it's an atmospheric (due to the music) but unremarkable film, and could''ve been so much more.