Starstruck (1983)
A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
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Truly Dreadful Film
Sorry, this movie sucks
Expected more
Crappy film
The director of "My Brilliant Career", the Production Designer of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", a choreographer working without trained dancers, several script writers and many composers bring a low-budget post-punk vitality to Sydney Australia.As the commentary on the DVD mentions, the prints of Starstruck seem to have been severely cut in different releases, and this print has at least one song hacked out of the release I saw in 1982. Still, the bouncy energy survives. Teenage lust and ambition are tempered with working class family values. The homage to Richard Lester and gay Busby Berkeley routine are still hilarious, and the finale will have your toes a-tapping.
This movie is awesome. The characters are great. The music is amazing. The plot is entertaining. I have watched this movie many times and it never gets old. A lost gem of a movie that very few people have ever seen.
Not all movies are supposed to be dignified and realistic and noble. I found this one noble though, and completely dorky, and cheesy, and fabulous. It makes me cry when I watch it again. The Nana character is endearing. The writing is clever without calling attention to its cleverness. The apartment-roof swimming pool scene is brilliant.
Its fuzzy in my memory...but it looked like they had put Manhattan's East Village on a beach where everyone lightened up...put on more than black and broke out in a really rock'n tune.