MPAA rating: R (language, sensuality, nudity). But even then, you'd still hear the dialogue.ĭirected and written by Mark Christopher photographed by Alexander Gruszynski edited by Lee Percy production designed by Kevin Thompson music supervisors Susan Jacobs, Coati Mundi Hernandez produced by Richard N.
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Perhaps the only hope for the movie (or, more precisely, for the audience watching it) would be to have the picture turned off so the audience could leave their seats and dance to the soundtrack. Whatever the fault, the sex scenes are as dull as the rest of the movie - though Myers livens things up when he hits on Shane and then vomits all over the skimmed cash on his bed.įilled with flailing dancers and murky backgrounds that begin to suggest a high-school prom on the theme "Disco Madness," "54" is like a party that goes bad as soon as the guests walk in the door. What went wrong? Perhaps Christopher was hamstrung by a studio desire to keep the movie mainstream.
"54" is bad on every level: writing, directing, acting, interior decoration and as a record of the period. 21, One Sunday night, the restaurant scheduled only one waiter and one busboy, me. 20, My last job before becoming a full-time journalist in 1980 was working as a busboy in a French restaurant in California. Soon Shane is upgraded from hot pants busboy to shirtless bartender. 19, Jordan has had a varied career including stints in the Navy, working as a busboy at nightclub Studio 54 and theatre production. And Shane, meanwhile, learns to get ahead by pleasuring bossman Rubell. They include a beleaguered bookkeeper Viv (Sherry Stringfield), various drug dealers and sleazos, two nearly mute imitations of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, a disco granny named Disco Dottie (Ellen Albertini Dow) and Shane's all-time romantic fantasy, soap opera goddess Julie Black (Neve Campbell). NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/CBS News) - Wednesday marked 40 years since the famed nightclub Studio 54 opened in Midtown Manhattan. (Who needs buddies?) But other colorful characters hanging around 54 fill the void. Shane's buddies, except for a later scene, vanish. dim busboy Greg (Breckin Meyer) and his coat-check girlfriend/wannabe. And later on he gets hired as a busboy, bonds and moves in with fellow busboy Greg Randazzo (Breckin Meyer) and Greg's sultry open-marriage wife, Anita (Salma Hayek), coat-check girl and aspiring disco diva. If the new film 54 is to believed, Studio 54 in its heyday was a place where you. But the body and style police outside 54's doors, including strict Marc the Doorman (Daniel La Paine), joined by Rubell himself, reject Shane's buddies as too tacky and will accept Shane only if he takes off his striped shirt.
The movie begins with Shane and his Jersey buddies descending on Studio 54 one fateful night after hearing that "Grease" heartthrob Olivia Newton-John may be there.