SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL is an umpteenth-generation retooling of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, ostensibly grounded in the Nashville music scene on the strength of some of its real-life cameos. Using Music Row ringers in both lead and incidental roles, it tries to weld a quintessential film
noir story line to the crying-in-your-beer conventions of country weepers.
Itinerant songwriter Travis (Billy Burnette) happens into a small-town Tennessee tavern run by redneck behemoth T.J. (Rick Dean). T.J.'s wife Darlene (Maria Ford), a peroxide honey in a biker bra, is little more than a glorified barmaid, but clearly has the crackle of ambition in her eyes.
Onstage, T...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
75 mins