Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)

Director:

Alex Steyermark

Writers:

Cheri Lovedog (writer)
Robin Whitehouse (writer)

Release Date:

4 June 2004 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Plot:

Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are...

Plot Keywords:

1980s | Rock 'n' Roll | Punk Rock Girl | Girl Band | 1990s

Cast

Gina Gershon	...	Jacki
Drea de Matteo	...	Tracy
Lori Petty	...	Faith
Shelly Cole	...	Sally
Marc Blucas	...	Animal
Ivan Martin	...	Nick
Eddie Driscoll	...	Chuck
Ashley Eckstein	...	Punk Rock Girl (as Ashley Drane)
Shakara Ledard	...	Jessica
Terri Laird	...	Herself (as Texas Terri)
Sandra Seacat	...	Jacki's Mom
Nancy Pimental	...	Natalie
Greg Rikaart	...	Scott
Francois Harold	...	Johnny
Joannah Portman	...	Sorority Girl #1

Also Known As:

My Favorite Sin (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual content, drug use and brief violence.

Runtime:

Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 | Italy:VM14 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:R

Company:

Prey LLC

Trivia:

To promote this movie, Gina Gershon toured with a backup band. A documentary series was produced about the tour called "Rocked with Gina Gershon" (2004).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Jacki gives Faith a tattoo. Faith shows the tattoo to Sally and says, "Jacki just did it today." The Tattoo showed no signs of being new at all. No redness, no swelling, no irritation and no Vaseline covering it. It looked as if it had been done months ago.

Quotes:

Tracy: I need help.

Movie Connections:

Features The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Soundtrack:

The Ugly

Breathing in the music.

Glamorous… no way. The low-scale feature "Prey for Rock and Roll" is far from a sugar-coated rags-to-riches tale, but a scorching and soul-seeking drama (they might be making ends meat, but they enjoy and live for 'their' music than looking for fame… but they slog it out the hard and long way to finally see it that way) set in the hot and heavy punk rock scene captured in an almost imitate documentary style. It wasn't what I was expecting that's for sure, as the music is its core (with some good musical pieces by Gina… who did perform all of her own vocals and '6 minutes' was something special), but wrapped around it is a very conventional character formed, but strikingly biting story (based on rocker Cheri Lovedog's autobiographical) driven by its authentic grit and picture-perfect performances with excellent dynamics led by the outstandingly simmering Gina Gershon. She lives her character psychically, but also mentally through the highs and lows. Pouring out emotion (and there's a lot from anger to sorrow and pain that's effectively brought across), with roguishly pointed-tongue quips from an elastic script. Making up the rest of the chicks in her band is a rebelliously intoxicating Drea De Matteo, a sure-footed Lori Petty and a sassy doll-face Shelly Cole. In support are stable turns by Marc Blucas and Ivan Martin. Director Alex Steyermark instills a punching attitude and a genuine feel to his imagery with its all-too easy pace breezing by making the whole thing so engaging, even though it's a well-worn formula. The electrifying soundtrack to boot, pumps out the potent tunes and accordingly matches to the smothering atmosphere. You actually do feel like you're a passenger on the rock and roll ride. Enjoyable, but also confronting music/drama feature.