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Backbeat (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 12, 2003
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee & Ian Hart | |
| Performer: | Gary Bakewell, Scot Williams, Kai Wiesinger, Jennifer Ehle & James Doherty | |
| Directed by | Iain Softley | |
| Edited by | Martin Walsh | |
| Screenwriting by | Iain Softley, Stephen Ward & Michael Thomas | |
| Composition by | Don Was | |
| Produced by | Stephen Woolley & Finola Dwyer | |
| Director of Photography: | Ian Wilson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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BACKBEAT nails the era's speed-fueled rocker spirit while mining the consequences of an artist following his bliss.
Rolling Stone
What pulls you over the bum spots is the electrifying immediacy.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/4 --
First-time director Iain Softley makes the film more visually distinctive than most music bios.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
When we have a comprehensive documentary available in the form of The Beatles Anthology, films like Backbeat end up serving as a moot point.
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Solzy at the Movies
[I]t's Ian Hart as the young Lennon who steals the show.
Uncut
Rating: 3/5 --
It is the band, the group - with or without Sutcliffe - that makes Backbeat such a powerfully emotional elegy.
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Hartford Courant
The music is loud and raw, but nevertheless evokes the excitement it generated.
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Time Out
Product Description:
This hard-driving, energetic drama chronicling the Beatles' ascendance to fame in Hamburg's club circuit centers on "fifth Beatle" Stu Sutcliffe and his close relationship to John Lennon. Driven by art rather than music, Sutcliffe ultimately must choose between his true passion and certain superstardom.
Keywords:
Friends
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Rock And Roll
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Romance
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True Story
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Racy
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1960s
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Beatles
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