Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 93'
A dramatic comedy set in the world of rock and roll in Los Angeles. Gwen is an ambitious young singer who earns her living by cleaning the house of Liz, a film art director who is looking for a new lover. Liz has a friend named Eva, an actress who has married a famous English rock musician, Clive. Gwen takes advantage of the situation and seduces Bert, a musician in Clive's group. Clive is reorganizing his band in order to make his way back into the spotlight, something that seems unlikely now. Meanwhile, Carl, the guitarist, is on tour with an extremely attractive Mexican singer, Rosio Sanchez. It is not easy for Carl to remain faithful to his wife, who is eight-months pregnant.
Biography
film director
Allison Anders
Allison Anders was born in Kentucky, but moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at UCLA Film School. In 1989 he made the cult movie Border Radio with Kurt Voss and Dean Lent. He made several successful feature films and shot one of the four episodes of Four Rooms, an anthology film produced by Quentin Tarantino. His fifth film, Grace of My Heart, was produced by Martin Scorcese.
FILMOGRAFIA
Border Radio (co-regia, 1989), Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Strano intruglio (The Missing Ingredient, ep. di Four Rooms, 1995), Grace of My Heart - La grazia del mio cuore (1996), Sugar Town (1998).
Kurt Voss
Kurt Voss graduated from UCLA Film School in 1988. After working with Allison Anders on Border Radio, he made many films and telefilms. He collaborated on writing the screenplays for films directed by others, including Marc Rocco's Where the Day Takes You (1992).
FILMOGRAFIA
Border Radio (co-regia, 1989), Horseplayer (1990), Genuine Risk (1990), Baja (1995), Amnesia (1997), Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997), Below Utopia (1997), The Pass (1998), Sugar Town (1998).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Allison Anders, Kurt Voss.
Director of photography: Kristien Bernier.
Costume designer: Anita Cabada.
Art director: Alyssa Coppleman.
Sound: Aletha Rodgers, Paul Marshall.
Music: Larry Klein. Editor: Chris Figler.
Cast and characters: Ally Sheedy (Liz), Rosanna Arquette (Eva), John Taylor (Clive), Michael Des Barres (Nick), Larry Klein (Burt), Beverly D'Angelo (Jane).
Produttori: Dan Hassid, Nancy Griffin.
Production company: Sugar Town Productions, 3720 Rodeo Grounds, Malibu, CA 90265, USA, tel. +1-310-4567350, fax +1-310-4561129.
Foreign sales agent: Film Four International, 76-78 Charlotte Street, London W1P 1LX, UK, tel. +44-171-8687700, fax +44-171-8687766, e-mail mrunagall@channel4.co.uk
Director of photography: Kristien Bernier.
Costume designer: Anita Cabada.
Art director: Alyssa Coppleman.
Sound: Aletha Rodgers, Paul Marshall.
Music: Larry Klein. Editor: Chris Figler.
Cast and characters: Ally Sheedy (Liz), Rosanna Arquette (Eva), John Taylor (Clive), Michael Des Barres (Nick), Larry Klein (Burt), Beverly D'Angelo (Jane).
Produttori: Dan Hassid, Nancy Griffin.
Production company: Sugar Town Productions, 3720 Rodeo Grounds, Malibu, CA 90265, USA, tel. +1-310-4567350, fax +1-310-4561129.
Foreign sales agent: Film Four International, 76-78 Charlotte Street, London W1P 1LX, UK, tel. +44-171-8687700, fax +44-171-8687766, e-mail mrunagall@channel4.co.uk
