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Overview

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Director:
Steve Kloves
Writer (WGA):
Steve Kloves (written by)
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Release Date:
13 October 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Music | Romance more
Tagline:
For 31 years it's been just the Fabulous Baker Boys... but times change.
Plot:
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
A unique mood among modern films more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeff Bridges ... Jack Baker

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Susie Diamond

Beau Bridges ... Frank Baker
Ellie Raab ... Nina

Xander Berkeley ... Lloyd
Dakin Matthews ... Charlie

Ken Lerner ... Ray

Albert Hall ... Henry
Terri Treas ... Girl in Bed

Gregory Itzin ... Vince Nancy
Bradford English ... Earl
David Coburn ... Kid at Vet

Todd Jeffries ... Theo

Gregory James ... Hotel Masseuse (as Jeffrey J. Nowinski)

Nancy Fish ... Laughing Bar Patron
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Additional Details

Runtime:
114 min | Australia:110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Brooke Shields turned down the role of Susie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Frank, Jack and Susie get underway for the trip to the New Year's event at the resort hotel (a.k.a. Bill Gate's house), they are first shown driving southbound on the Mercer Street onramp to Interstate-5. Then the scene shifts to them driving near the Spokane Street exit southbound, five miles to the south. Then the scene shifts back to them driving emerging from a tunnel, which is actually the same southbound I-5 onramp, only a little farther past the initial shot. more
Quotes:
Susie Diamond: So, make any resolutions?
Jack Baker: No, you?
Susie Diamond: Nah, I figure all that stuff's a bunch of crap, anyway. You do what you do, right?
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: She's Baaaack! (#4.20)" (2000) more
Soundtrack:
My Funny Valentine more

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24 out of 31 people found the following comment useful:-
A unique mood among modern films, 7 January 2002
10/10
Author: Mark Hudson from London, England

Possibly the best ensemble acting since the Hawks, Bogart and Bacall version of "The Big Sleep". There aren't many films of the eighties that match the sheer class of the best studio pictures of the thirties, forties and fifties. This one does. Watch the scene where Jeff Bridges lights Pfeiffer's cigarette for a few seconds' vignette of perfectly restrained and utterly revealing acting. But then, almost every scene in this movie is at or near this standard. It's a film in a thousand, if that, that makes you believe you are seeing a glimpse into real life at a particular place and time. The Fabulous Baker Boys is three people's intersecting lives in Seattle in the late eighties. As real as if you had been there? No. As right as if you had been there? Yes.

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