Rock Star (Blu-ray) R
The story of a wanna be who got to be.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 15, 2014
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mark Wahlberg & Jennifer Aniston | |
Performer: | Dominic West, Timothy Spall, Rachel Hunter, Heidi Mark, Carrie Stevens, Jason Flemyng, Dagmara Dominczyk, Timothy Olyphant & Stephan Jenkins | |
Directed by | Stephen Herek | |
Music by | Ritchie Blackmore & Sammy Hagar | |
Screenwriting by | John Stockwell | |
Composition by | Trevor Rabin | |
Produced by | Robert Lawrence & Toby Jaffe | |
Director of Photography: | Ueli Steiger | |
Executive Production by | Steven Reuther & George Clooney |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Spall] is charming....Mr. Stockwell and Mr. Herek balance mockery with affection...
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Just as it should be falling apart, its melodrama becomes more touching than ever, ultimately shaping a film about much more than any band and more poetic than any song on the radio.
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Zertinet Movies
Rating: 4/5 --
The first half is hilarious but the second gives itself more to cautionary moralising and life lessons.
Empire Magazine
A watered down, lukewarm and very cliché rock fantasy...
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Cinema Crazed
...The film uses its easy sense of humor to convey what is sometimes lost in rock films, the sense of fun involved in playing and listening to the music...
Los Angeles Times
Every character becomes a cipher for a strangely reactionary morality tale.
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Time Out
...The film is front-loaded with plenty of funny, authentic-feeling snapshots from the life of an earnest steel-belt metalhead...
Film Comment
Product Description:
Mark Wahlberg plays Chris Cole, a local guy from Pittsburgh who is a copy-machine repairman by day (still living at home), and the lead singer of Blood Pollution, a Steel Dragon tribute band, at night. (Steel Dragon is a heavy-metal hair band living it big in the 1980s.) Cole prides himself on getting everything exactly right when he's onstage, every note, every costume, every shade of mascara; he even gets a nipple ring right after Steel Dragon's lead singer does. Chris's dream turns into reality when Steel Dragon fires its lead singer and brings Chris in to audition for the job. He gets the gig, but he also gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Wahlberg is brilliant as Cole, playing the role to perfection, both as the young dreamer and the rock star living to excess. Jennifer Aniston is also excellent as Emily, his longtime girlfriend and manager who stands by him for as long as she can. The music nails the 1980s heavy-metal explosion, both in the original songs that Steel Dragon plays and the incidental music, from such groups as Kiss, Jon Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Motley Crue, and Dio. As good as Wahlberg and Aniston are, Timothy Spall, as Steel Dragon's manager, nearly steals the picture. ROCK STAR is an invigorating, intoxicating, thrilling ride of a movie; at times it even feels like it's the true story behind Spinal Tap. (In fact, it is loosely based on the true story of Ripper Owens and Judas Priest.) As an added bonus, the film features, in small roles, musicians who have played with such metalheads as Dokken, Slaughter, Ozzy Osbourne, and more.
Wahlberg is brilliant as Cole, playing the role to perfection, both as the young dreamer and the rock star living to excess. Jennifer Aniston is also excellent as Emily, his longtime girlfriend and manager who stands by him for as long as she can. The music nails the 1980s heavy-metal explosion, both in the original songs that Steel Dragon plays and the incidental music, from such groups as Kiss, Jon Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Motley Crue, and Dio. As good as Wahlberg and Aniston are, Timothy Spall, as Steel Dragon's manager, nearly steals the picture. ROCK STAR is an invigorating, intoxicating, thrilling ride of a movie; at times it even feels like it's the true story behind Spinal Tap. (In fact, it is loosely based on the true story of Ripper Owens and Judas Priest.) As an added bonus, the film features, in small roles, musicians who have played with such metalheads as Dokken, Slaughter, Ozzy Osbourne, and more.