Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Alex Steyermark

Writers:

Cheri Lovedog (writer)
Robin Whitehouse (writer)

Release Date:

4 June 2004 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Plot:

Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are...

Plot Keywords:

1980s | Rock 'n' Roll | Punk Rock Girl | Girl Band | 1990s

Cast

Gina Gershon	...	Jacki
Drea de Matteo	...	Tracy
Lori Petty	...	Faith
Shelly Cole	...	Sally
Marc Blucas	...	Animal
Ivan Martin	...	Nick
Eddie Driscoll	...	Chuck
Ashley Eckstein	...	Punk Rock Girl (as Ashley Drane)
Shakara Ledard	...	Jessica
Terri Laird	...	Herself (as Texas Terri)
Sandra Seacat	...	Jacki's Mom
Nancy Pimental	...	Natalie
Greg Rikaart	...	Scott
Francois Harold	...	Johnny
Joannah Portman	...	Sorority Girl #1

Also Known As:

My Favorite Sin (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual content, drug use and brief violence.

Runtime:

Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Italy:VM14 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:R

Company:

Prey LLC

Trivia:

The film was based on a play written by rock singer Cheri Lovedog. The story is based on her experiences in the rock business.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Jacki gives Faith a tattoo. Faith shows the tattoo to Sally and says, "Jacki just did it today." The Tattoo showed no signs of being new at all. No redness, no swelling, no irritation and no Vaseline covering it. It looked as if it had been done months ago.

Quotes:

Jacki: Now, here's a silly question: is Tracy here yet?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Rocked with Gina Gershon: (#1.1)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Juiced Up

Hot Women and Hot Music Mutually Generating the Power of Each

I was interested in this movie because of the "do your dreams have to die because you are over 40?" angle, but was completely blown away by the total quality of the movie. I'm not a huge rock fan so much (preferring jazz), but this movie made me a believer in the power of rock and I swear I am now going to regularly devour the entertainment listings in the "L.A. Weekly" with hopes of catching Cheri Lovedog (who wrote the autobiographical script) and I will be lining up at the Dragonfly or wherever with the rest of the explosive fans if she is still performing and I sure hope to God she is. Cheri--as you know better than most, dreams are eternal and age is a cipher. Maybe with this movie, you have made it like you deserve.

The music is hot and the women are even hotter--but there are no boundaries between the music and the women. Tender and tough all in the same package, those women are true stars. And these are no cookie-cutter characters, not by a long shot, and every single one of them is interesting to the max and were portrayed as not only very real, but people you have to care about despite how tough they come across--or maybe BECAUSE they are so tough, because no matter what life throws at them, they measure up to the challenge. They're fighters and survivors and I count that as an inspiring thing.

Probably my favorite character was "Faith," played by Lori Petty, although the entire cast was outstanding (and I have a tender place in my heart for Animal) but I have now firmly placed Gina Gershon at the head of the "sex is sex, I don't care which body parts you've got" list on which she was the charter member after her role in the movie "Bound". If I ever am asked why I won't explain whether I am gay or bi or whatever-the-hell, all I have to say is "Gina Gershon" and I hope that explains it all. This movie is the answer to so many questions I didn't even know I was asking. For those who love the power of music, for artists, for men and women, for the older and the younger, and for people everywhere just trying to love and to make it in life with as many pieces as possible, go see this film. I guess that includes everybody!