Silly drama presumably inspired by Eszterhas’ success with Flashdance – here’s another tale of a young sexy working class woman (19 year old toll booth operator) living in a flea bit working class town (she’s a toll operator in Jersey – shades of the later Coyote Ugly) who has an artistic dream (in this case to be a rock and roll singer) and has an affair with an older man. In this case it’s two elder men – a washed up rock singer living in the boondocks who she attaches herself to; he goes touring in England with her and she hooks up with a younger huge pop star. Both men are nice guys – too nice really, the piece lacks conflict and a villain. Or at least obstacles. You don’t really care who the girl winds up with.
With the right casting and a decent soundtrack you could imagine this being good campy fun a la Justine Bateman in Satisfaction – I can’t see it working any other way. It’s not much of drama, it doesn’t feel real or that interesting. Eszterhas was a good writer – the scenes have snap and crackle, it enters scenes late and gets out early and all that, but the characters aren’t that compelling. Feels more of a middle aged man fantasy (over the hill former star redeemed by young hot thing) when it should have been a little girl one.
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