Six years after the release of the lackluster EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS, which bombed at the box office but managed to find a following on cable TV, Michael Pare returns as New Jersey rock 'n' roller Eddie Wilson (shades of Bruce Springsteen, whose style is unashamedly aped by John Cafferty
and the Beaver Brown Band, who provide the words and music for Pare's lip-synching). His dreams of superstardom cut short by a ruthless record producer, Eddie dropped out of sight after an apparently fatal car wreck in the original. Beginning years later, the sequel finds Eddie living in Montreal
under a new identity. When the album he recorded way back in the 60s is finally releas...
Released:
1989
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins