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Format: VHS
Jun 1993
Rated R
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Closed Captioned
97 min. |
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Movie Description
Brad Pitt plays Johnny Suede, an ultra-cool Brooklyn rocker with a sweet and naive disposition and a healthy ego. And he always has a good hair day. Writer/director Tom DiCillo (THE REAL BLONDE, LIVING IN OBLIVION) tells the tale of a boyish wanna be rocker who wears cool suede and a ceiling busting pompadour to get his attitude in gear. One of Brad Pitt's earlier movie acting roles.
Synopsis
With his hair in a pompadour and sporting his trademark suede shoes, Johnny Suede dreams of becoming a pop star like his idol Ricky Nelson. Oblivious to his surroundings and his life as a house painter in Brooklyn, Johnny inhabits a fantasy world all his own. Then he meets a woman who could help him get a record deal, but heartbreak soon follows. It takes a more down-to-earth schoolteacher to bring him back to reality.
Film Notes
This film won the Locarno International Film Festival's Golden Leopard Award in 1991. It was also exhibited at both the Toronto and Deauville Film Festivals.
Directorial debut for writer/director Tom DiCillo, who previously worked as a cameraman on "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Variety."
Song credits: "Travellin' Man" written by Jerry Fuller; "Never Girl," "Mamma's Boy," "Midtown" written and performed by Steve Flynn; "Midtown" performed by Calvin Leeds, Christopher Faris, Steve Grandinetti; "Hotel Loneliness," "Don't Leave Me," "Viva Zapata" co-written by Olive Wray; "Are You Hectic" by Christoph Dreher, Jochen Arbeit, Rainer Lingk, Thomas Wydler.
Additional cast: Alison Moir (Darlette), Richard Boes (Man in Tuxedo), Cheryl Costa (Woman in Alley), Michael Luciano (Mr. Clepp), Peter McRobbie (Flip Doubt), Dennis Parlato (Dalton), Ralph Marrero (Bartender), Wilfredo Giovanni Clark (Slick), Michael Mulheren (Fred Business), Wayne Maugans (Ned Business), Joseph Barry (The Cowboy), John David Barone (Bernard), Evelyn Solann (Old Woman), Ahmed Ben Larby (Cab Driver).
Additional credits: Alain Klarer (co-producer), Bruno Pesery (co-producer), Janet Jacobson (co-producer), Patricia Woodbridge (production designer), Rob Hallenbake (assistant director), Lizzie Gulczynski (special design consultant), Dominick Tavella (sound).
Shot on location in New York; color by DuArt.
Produced in association with Balthazar Pictures.
Industry Reviews
"...[Pitt] seems to be a genuine movie personality....Something is going on in JOHNNY SUEDE..."
Canby
"...Charmingly offbeat....JOHNNY SUEDE has an astonishingly consistent tone and a remarkably talented and cohesive cast..."
Los Angeles Times - Michael Wilmington (08/21/1992)
"It has a look as lovely as light in limbo and a mood like melancholy music."
Uncut - Chris Roberts (10/01/2005)
"Pitt offers one of his most pleasing performances, striking the right balance between vanity and vulnerability."
Sight and Sound - Matthew Leyland (10/01/2005)
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