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Roadie
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 20, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 789
Provides a touching look at a man whose life is in a period of transition. Full Review
Cinemalogue
Jan 20, 2012
Rating: 2.5/4 -- "Roadie" is short on narrative momentum, but it's a perfectly attuned character study of this rock relic and his middle-aged sorrows. Full Review
New York Post
Jan 6, 2012
Rating: 3/4 -- A lot of what takes place in "Roadie" feels overly familiar, and the film could have been a wallow in pathos except for the performances, especially that of Eldard. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 23, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5 -- While the excellent cast does its level, honest best with the material, the material itself feels secondhand throughout. Full Review
MSN Movies
Jan 6, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5 -- It's rare that an acting performance can carry a movie, but Ron Eldard gets a lot more out of his role than was on the page. Eldard invests his character with palpable vulnerability. Full Review
tonymacklin.net
Feb 24, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Eldard makes you feel for this broken-down rock and roll creep. That feeling might be that he needs a good slap in the face, but Eldard doesn't want to be loved here and he doesn't flinch in the process. Full Review
Movies.com
Mar 5, 2013
Roadie has the stench of freshman-year mandatory creative writing all over it, from its cribs of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller to an ending that's embarrassingly, clangingly metaphorical. Full Review
TheWrap
Jan 5, 2012

Product Description:

A man has to give up a life of lifting amps and chasing groupies to take on the challenges of the real world in this independent drama. Jimmy Testagross (Ron Eldard) was a teenage rock & roll fan when he was growing up in Queens, and a couple years out of high school, he landed what seemed like the perfect job -- joining the road crew of hard-rock icons Blue Oyster Cult. After spending 20 years on the road, Jimmy is cut loose when economics force the band to streamline their operation, and at the ripe old age of 40, he has no idea what to do with his life. Needing some time to regroup, Jimmy returns home to visit his elderly mother (Lois Smith), only to discover she's growing senile and may need him to move in and look after her. As he struggles with the notion of facing adult responsibilities for the first time, he also crosses paths with Randy (Bobby Cannavale), who bullied him in high school and still acts like a spoiled brat, and Nikki (Jill Hennessy), Randy's wife, who dated Jimmy in high school and is still holding on to a fading dream of making it as a singer/songwriter. Jill Hennessy, an accomplished musician as well as an actress, wrote the songs she performs in character in the film.

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  • Sales Rank: 61,662
  • UPC: 876964004497
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