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Writer (WGA):
Carol Heikkinen (written by)
Release Date:
16 July 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
Stand By Your Dream
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A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom. full summary | add synopsis
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To Be Young And In Love In Nashville
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | River Phoenix | ... | James Wright |
 | Samantha Mathis | ... | Miranda Presley |
 | Dermot Mulroney | ... | Kyle Davidson |
 | Sandra Bullock | ... | Linda Lue Linden |
 | K.T. Oslin | ... | Lucy |
| Anthony Clark | ... | Billy |
| Webb Wilder | ... | Ned |
 | Earl Poole Ball | ... | Floyd |
| Deborah Allen | ... | Herself |
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore | ... | Himself |
| Katy Moffatt | ... | Herself |
| Jo-El Sonnier | ... | Himself |
| Pam Tillis | ... | Herself |
| Kevin Welch | ... | Himself |
| Trisha Yearwood | ... | Herself |
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Rated PG-13 for language. (2005 director's cut)
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116 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:M |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Iceland:L |
Finland:S |
Argentina:13 |
Spain:T |
USA:PG-13 |
Germany:6
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The most financially unsuccessful film of 1993, earning only $1 million gross from a budget of $14 million.
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Revealing mistakes: In the scene when James meets with a record label agent after performing, Miranda is closing up the bar, however it is obviously day time outside with cars and people going by the windows.
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Miranda Presley:
And what about... me?
James Wright: You want to come all the way to Memphis just to sit around and watch me record? I thought you'd want to stay here. settle into our, house...
Miranda Presley: And do what?
James Wright: do what? don't know. What does one do anywhere? There's a number of things you could do... write songs... birdwatch.
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James Wright: You want to come all the way to Memphis just to sit around and watch me record? I thought you'd want to stay here. settle into our, house...
Miranda Presley: And do what?
James Wright: do what? don't know. What does one do anywhere? There's a number of things you could do... write songs... birdwatch.
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Featured in Our Friend River (2006) (V)
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Soundtrack:
YOU DON'T LIVE FOR LOVE
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One of River Phoenix's last film roles was as part of a quartet of performer/songwriters looking to get a break in country music in Nashville. The rest of the quartet in The Thing Called Love is Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock, and Dermpt Mulroney. The whole thing kind of reminds me a little bit of Stage Door in the hopes and dreams and the camaraderie shared among the hopefuls.
In the two hour running time of the film there are almost 20 musical numbers, so many the plot almost gets in the way. When the quartet isn't singing, they're acting out the usual angst romantic and professional that are common to the young. And several country stars do some musical bits here, chiefly Tricia Yearwood who sings her hit, She's In Love With The Boy.
Tricia also figures into the plot when Mulroney and Mathis break into Yearwood's car in order to leave a cassette tape of Mulroney's latest song. It sounds like something out of I Love Lucy and it all works out in the Lucy manner with Yearwood being a good sport about it. In real life, those two would have been in court with Yearwood taking a restraining order out.
The plot is pedestrian, but the music is nice, especially if you are a country and western fan.