Not Fade Away (2012)

Set in suburban New Jersey the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Director:

David Chase

Writer:

David Chase

Stars:

John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Magaro	...	Douglas
Jack Huston	...	Eugene
Will Brill	...	Wells
Dominique McElligott	...	Joy Deitz
Brahm Vaccarella	...	Joe Patuto
Gregory Perri	...	Skip
James Gandolfini	...	Pat
Bella Heathcote	...	Grace Dietz
Molly Price	...	Antoinette
Meg Guzulescu	...	Evelyn
Christopher McDonald	...	Jack Dietz
Brad Garrett	...	Jerry Ragovoy
Isiah Whitlock Jr.	...	Landers
Gerard Canonico	...	Schindewulf
F. Michael Haynie	...	The Bloat

Storyline

Set in suburban New Jersey the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

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Plot Keywords:

band | 1960s | new jersey | dog | sister sister relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive language, some drug use and sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 October 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Pearl River, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$19,182 (USA) (21 December 2012)

Gross:

$607,327 (USA) (18 January 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chase Films, Gran Via Productions, Indian Paintbrush

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Most feature films slot 1-2 percent of production costs for the music budget, but in "Fade', music supervisor Steven Van Zandt, had about 10% of the $20-million-plus budget or at least $2 million.

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Goofs

In an early scene, Douglas and friends are seen perusing shrink-wrapped LP records in a music store. These discs were sold unwrapped through the 1960s, the time of the scene.

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Connections

Referenced in The Basement Tapes (2013)

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Soundtracks

"Bo Diddley"
Written by Bo Diddley
Performed by Jack Huston
Produced by Steven Van Zandt

User Reviews

Young man grows into rock and roll and independence

Bob Dylan ends Not Fade Away with "She's an artist; she don't look back." David Chase is an artist whose first feature film is not just a look back at his coming of age in New Jersey around 1963 but about the ambiguities in the impulse to look back.

As one character quotes The Tibetan Book of the Dead, there is no past, only the present, which contains the past as it does the future. The film's title comes from a song and a singer (the prematurely snuffed Buddy Holly) we don't hear in the film because it's not about that particular song/singer or even that period; it's about the ineffable presence of the past, our containing what we were. The past is the one thing that doesn't fade away, the way youth, vim, hopes, love, faith, family, friends, lovers, do.

Time is the film's central theme. The early and late TV clips show a trio twisting again, like they did that implicit mythic summer. In the clip from Welles's Touch of Evil the fat old sheriff hearkens to the memories stirred by Marlene Dietrich's mechanical piano -- and she struggles to find the old Hank in the grotesquely obese one. OK, all those candy bars and booze don't fade away either.

Chase's hero, Douglas (John Magaro) -- however autobiographic -- is today what he was then. The plot replays the boy's growing away from his family and the independence he gained first from his passion for rock and roll music and then from his transition to the West Coast and filmmaking. In reverse of the most repeated song in the film, he has time on his side because he's alive in its flow. It's time, not the lover, that keeps running back to him. See more at www.yacowar.blogspot.com