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The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

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Reviews Counted:14

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Average Rating:7.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A powerful biography of '50s Texas rockabilly phenomenon Buddy Holly who took his band the Crickets to the top of the charts before a tragic airplane accident ended his life. Portrays Holly as... A powerful biography of '50s Texas rockabilly phenomenon Buddy Holly who took his band the Crickets to the top of the charts before a tragic airplane accident ended his life. Portrays Holly as regular, hardworking type who struggles with peers and the music industry before he makes it big with the huge hit "That'll Be The Day." Also details the final events leading up to the plane crash, en route to Minnesota in a snow storm on February 3, 1959, which also claimed the lives of Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. [More]

Starring: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis

Starring: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, Maria Richwine, Bill Jordan, Albert Popwell, John Goff

Director: Steve Rash

Director: Steve Rash
Screenwriter: Robert Gittler
Producer: Fred Bauer
Composer: Joe Renzetti

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The Buddy Holly Story moves us with the joyfulness of its music and the honest sentiment aroused in us by this gawky, shy rock singer and songwriter.

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An exceptionally good musical biopic with a sensational performancy by Busey

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Gary Busey's great performance offsets the fact that the script is about 80 percent fiction.

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