Roadie (2011)
After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
Roadie (2011)
Information
Released Year: 2011
Runtime: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directors: Michael Cuesta
Writers: Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta
Casts: Lois Smith, David Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, Jarlath Conroy, Ron Eldard, Suzette Gunn, Jill Hennessy, Lourdes Martin, Arian Moayed, Lucy Spain, Katherine Hughes
IMDB: Roadie (2011)
Storyline
After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
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Reviews
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Time Out -
It's here, in a keenly captured Forest Hills, Queens, land of low-lit bars and manicured lawns, that Roadie soars as a gently comic drama about living the dream - or trying to.
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New York Daily News -
Michael Cuesta's perfectly-pitched indie captures the pain of arrested development with so much empathy and insight, you can't help but root for the unmoored, overgrown adolescent at its center.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
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.
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Variety -
Roadie features some wonderfully evocative music out of its characters' collective past (local legends the Good Rats, for instance) but like Jimmy himself, it takes a bit of a push to get the picture going, which it gets, both emotionally and dramatically, thanks largely to its ensemble.
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Village Voice -
Eldard, with eyes projecting adolescent vulnerability and a body lost to awkward midlife chub, is enough to redeem Cuesta's indie commonplaces.
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After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
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