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:

Gina Gershon performs all of her vocals live in the film.

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:

Punk Rock Girl: [Girl atonally strums the guitar really fast and yells incoherently] What do you think?
Faith: Oh! Um! Tha, tha that wasn't bad!
Punk Rock Girl: Yeah!
Faith: Um! Ok! but do you remember what we were talking about, um! The dynamics of a song.
Punk Rock Girl: What's that?
Faith: Um! Oh, look, we're out of time
Punk Rock Girl: Ok, ok, I'll... I'll see you next week then.
Faith: Yes.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hollywood Trash & Tinsel (2004)

Soundtrack:

Bitter Pill

Gina Gershon ROCKS!!!!

PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL (2003) *** Gina Gershon, Drea da Matteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Marc Blucas, Ivan Martin, Eddie Driscoll, Greg Rikaart, Sandra Seacat, Ashley Drane, Joannah Portman. Highly energetic and scrappy depiction of women in rock and roll and the dreams that always seem within grasp even if it takes decades to achieve. Gershon (she also co-executive produced and sings and performs all her own original songs to boot) is the lead singer (think the love child of Iggy Pop and Joan Jett) of a woman's rocking band attempting to score a recording contract to a ticket to the big time but the usual melodramas of bad choices in boyfriends, drugs and life in general delay them despite their game camaraderie and love for one another. The autobiographical screenplay by rocker Cheri Lovedog (and Robin Whitehouse) shows the warts and all look at a tough industry with some tough cookies clawing their way to gain some respect for their artistry (and from within). Petty gives her best performance since `Point Break' while da Matteo and Cole provide enough sugar and spice to mix things up believeably. Great soundtrack and again Gershon (who I love) clearly shows her blood, sweat and tears in this personal project with her trademark ballsy yet vulnerable and sexy-as-hell aplomb; she shoots and scores! (Dir: Alex Steyermark)