Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

Name: Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999-11-07
Duration: 4 h
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Bonnie Somerville, Brad Hawkins, Kathy Baker

TV Movie
19991999
4h

7.1/10

223

Brad Hawkins and Bonnie Sommerville as Tyler and Lyne.

Drama

A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's. The band gets popular and the labels approach them with their own ideas about the direction the band should take next. Wi... Read allA group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's. The band gets popular and the labels approach them with their own ideas about the direction the band should take next. Will their pressure tear the band apart?A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's. The band gets popular and the labels approach them with their own ideas about the direction the band should take next. Will their pressure tear the band apart?

7.1/10

223

Director
- Mike Robe
Writers
- Mike Robe(teleplay)
- Bill Kerby(teleplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations

B.B. King on the set of Shake, Rattle and Roll with Brad Hawkins.

Bonnie Sommerville, James Coburn, and Brad Hawkins on set of Shake, Rattle and Roll.

Travis Fine, Bonnie Sommerville, Brad Hawkins and Kai Lennox as The Heartaches.

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)

Director
- Mike Robe
Writers
- Mike Robe(teleplay) (story) (part I)
- Bill Kerby(teleplay) (part II)
All cast & crew

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elvis presley character little richard character rock star rock 'n' roll

Genre
- Drama
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
The teen idol from the 50s is here, Eddie "Kookie" Byrnes

Goofs
Bill Haley is shown performing at the start of part 2 as a solo act. In the 1950s (and indeed throughout his rock and roll career) he always worked in conjunction with The Comets. The band shown backing Haley at the start of part 2 is not The Comets.

Connections
Referenced in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Heather Locklear/Randy Quaid/Dave Grohl (1999)

Soundtracks
Sh-Boom
Written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd McRae and James Edwards
Performed by The Chords

Top review

10/10

From a teens point of view: simply awesome...

Shake, Rattle and Roll is one of the most decent movies I have seen in a long while. Giving teens like myself a good taste of the 50's/60's were like and I believe really taking people like our parents back to those days when they were growing up. Lynn and Tyler are two very well portrayed characters as are Marsha and Morris. I found the smoothness of the movie very noticeable. It really moved along well. It was refreshing to see artists such as KC & JoJo and Blink 182, from our generation playing characters of our parents' generation. This is a tremendous movie that I highly recommend to any age audience. Everyone can get something out of this movie. I personally adored it, heck I wouldn't be up at 11:30 on a school night writing about it if I didn't. :)

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