Jersey Boys (film)

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Movie
German title Jersey boys
Original title Jersey boys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 134 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Clint Eastwood
script Marshall Brickman ,
Rick Elice
production Clint Eastwood,
Graham King ,
Tim Headington ,
Robert Lorenz
music Bob Gaudio (music),
Bob Crewe (lyrics)
camera Tom Stern
cut Joel Cox ,
Gary D. Roach
occupation

Jersey Boys is a biographical film drama by Clint Eastwood from the year 2014 . The film is the American theatrical adaptation of the award-winning musical of the same name by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe , which ran on Broadway for more than eight years and toured successfully around the world. The legendary lead singer of the Four Seasons , Frankie Valli , is played by John Lloyd Young - who has already received a Tony Award for his portrayal of Valli in the musical . The role of Bob Gaudio, who wrote many of the Four Seasons' most successful hits , is played by Erich Bergen .

Premiered Jersey Boys on 5 June 2014, the Sydney Film Festival . The film was released in German-speaking countries on July 31, 2014.

action

The storyline spans three decades from the band's formation to their 1990 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Four young men from a poor neighborhood in Newark , New Jersey , formed a rock and pop group in 1953 , which in the 1960s became known as the cult band The Four Seasons .

Tommy DeVito tells how the band The Variety Trio started with his brother Nick DeVito and his friend Nick Massi. He discovers the teenager Frankie Castelluccio, takes him under his wing and teaches him everything he knows. Nick Massi practices singing with Frankie while Tommy goes to jail for a while. Frankie changes his last name to Valli, falls in love with Mary Delgado and marries her. Musically, the band is still experimenting and changing name and sound several times, but without resounding success. Joe Pesci introduces Tommy to singer and songwriter Bob Gaudio , who turns out to be the perfect fourth man for the band.

The band gets a contract from producer Bob Crewe , but only as a background band. They call themselves Four Seasons after the bowling alley , and Bob writes the three songs that will eventually make them stars: Sherry , Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man . With this success they go on tour. Unfortunately, touring life puts a strain on Frankie and Mary's marriage, so they get divorced. The band continued to have chart successes until, after a concert, a loan shark asked Tommy back for money that he had spent over the years. Tommy becomes jealous of Frankie's success and his relationship with Bob deteriorates. When the loan shark demands from the band the $ 150,000 Tommy owes him, Frankie asks Mafia boss Gyp DeCarlo for help. Tommy is slated to go to Las Vegas, where the Mafia will keep an eye on him, and the band will take on the debt, along with half a million untaxed income that Tommy hid from the group. Nick gets out of the band.

Frankie and Bob find a replacement to keep the band as a quartet. Privately, Frankie's relationship with his daughter Francine, who dies of a drug overdose, is strained, and he breaks up with his girlfriend Lorraine. Musically, Frankie continues to enjoy success thanks to Bob's songs.

The original line-up of the Four Seasons made one last appearance in 1990 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

production

The creative team was led by Oscar nominee and cinematographer Tom Stern, Oscar nominee and production designer James J. Murakami - who previously worked together on Strange Son - Oscar winner and film editor Joel Cox ( Merciless ) and his co-editor Gary D. Roach , and BAFTA Award candidate costume designer Deborah Hopper .

Filming took place in August and September 2013 in Kearny , New Jersey and Los Angeles , California . The companies GK Films , Malpaso, RatPac Entertainment, RatPac-Dune Entertainment and Warner Bros. were involved in the production.

Production costs amounted to an estimated 40 million US dollars .

Film music

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2012

Title list of the soundtrack:

  1. Prelude
  2. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  3. My Mother's Eyes - Frankie Valli
  4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - John Lloyd Young
  5. A Sunday Kind of Love - John Lloyd Young, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  6. Moody's Mood for Love - John Lloyd Young
  7. Cry for Me - Erich Bergen
  8. Sherry - John Lloyd Young
  9. Big Girls Don't Cry - John Lloyd Young
  10. Walk Like a Man - John Lloyd Young
  11. My Boyfriend's Back - Kimmy Gatewood
  12. My Eyes Adored You - John Lloyd Young
  13. Dawn (Go Away) - John Lloyd Young
  14. Big Man in Town - John Lloyd Young
  15. Beggin ' - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, John Lloyd Young, Ryan Malloy
  16. Medley - stay ; Let's hang on! (To What We've Got); Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me); Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)  - John Lloyd Young
  17. C'mon Marianne - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, John Lloyd Young
  18. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - John Lloyd Young
  19. Working My Way Back to You - John Lloyd Young
  20. Fallen Angel - Frankie Valli
  21. Who Loves You - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, John Lloyd Young
  22. Closing Credits: Sherry / December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza
  23. Sherry - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  24. Dawn (Go Away) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  25. Rag Doll - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

reception

Jersey Boys began in the United States on June 22, 2014 2,905 cinema screens and played on the first weekend about 13.3 million  US dollars at the box office one. Global revenue through March 2015 was approximately $ 67.3 million.

Reviews

“ Jersey Boys may be based on the four Tonys-winning Broadway musical of the same name, but the theatrical version is at least as much a behind-the-scenes drama about the labors and costs of a life in show business as it is musical journey through time to the 1950s and 60s. [...] At the end of the day, Jersey Boys lacks the momentum of a flawless musical as well as the depth of the incisive historical drama. "

- Andreas Staben : film starts

“By Eastwood's standards, the boy band nostalgia looks strangely conservative and almost as slick as the Four Seasons stage outfit. A showbiz story like a thousand others. Conclusion: clichéd musical drama about a cult pop band "

- Heiko Rosner : Cinema

“But it's not enough for more than a few magical minutes. In terms of content, however, he follows her [his musical model] too much, and unfortunately what is right on stage is far from right for the cinema. The story of the rise and fall of the Four Seasons is foreseeable, the emotional tension in the group is far too seldom felt as in a brilliant outburst from Nick DeVito, the otherwise calmest member, against his brother Tommy, [...]. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for Jersey Boys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 010 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Jersey Boys . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b Release Info. In: IMDb . Retrieved July 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Jersey Boys - It all started with a sound that became a sensation. In: Movies. Retrieved July 31, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b Jersey Boys: About. (No longer available online.) In: Warner Bros. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014 ; accessed on August 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwws.warnerbros.de
  6. ↑ Filming Locations. In: IMDb . Retrieved August 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b Box office / business for Jersey Boys. In: IMDb . Retrieved August 2, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Jersey Boys: Movie Info. In: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . Retrieved August 2, 2014 .
  9. ^ Andrew Gans: Jersey Boys: "Music from the Motion Picture and Broadway Musical". (No longer available online.) In: Playbill.com. June 5, 2014, archived from the original on June 6, 2014 ; accessed on August 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  10. ↑ a b Jersey Boys. In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com, Inc. , accessed November 18, 2017 .
  11. ^ Andreas Staben: Critique of the Filmstarts.de editors. In: film starts . Retrieved August 2, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Heiko Rosner: Jersey Boys (2014). In: Cinema . Retrieved August 3, 2014 .
  13. ↑ FASZ July 27, 2014 / Andreas Platthaus : Sing Sing! (Features, p. 33)