So far this year we've had the wussiest rock movie ever made, Garage Days, and now Prey for Rock 'n' Roll is the most depressing -- but in a bad way.
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10/03/03
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Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:26
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Gershon is a fierce rocker, but the plot is a cliche-filled melodrama.
Theatrical Release:Oct 3, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Two days before her 40th birthday, Los Angeles rock musician/tattoo artist Jacki (Gina Gershon) is considering throwing in the towel on her her dreams of stardom. As frontwoman for the all-female... [More]
Starring: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Marc Blucas, Lori Petty
Director: Alex Steyermark
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Reviews for Prey for Rock & Roll
What we want to see is these women onstage, strutting and posturing and kicking out the jams. Instead, we become waylaid in dramatic sidelines that serve little purpose.
10/22/03
The film has its sensibilities in the right place.
03/16/04
Top CriticGershon rocks the screen
10/11/03
Gershon is the only reason to watch the film.
04/20/04
There's a sharp sense of honest rock-chick energy that draws us into this film, even when its story takes a few overwrought and melodramatic turns.
04/05/05
Even when the screenplay groans with cliches, the four lead actresses play their parts with truckloads of heart.
09/26/03
Top CriticEdgy, intense, and thoroughly engaging. What makes this movie work is Gina Gershon - the movie rests squarely on her shoulders and she never gives a false note.
12/19/03
There's enough melodrama here to top a movie-of- the-week marathon on Lifetime.
10/22/03
More bad things happen to these four women than one independent film can possibly carry.
10/19/03
Aside from Ms. Gershon's performance (none of the other cast members actually played), there's little to elevate the music -- or the movie -- above cliché.
12/18/03
Top CriticThe execution is as stale as the draft beer in some of the joints where the band entertains.
09/30/03
An ingratiatingly scrappy little movie.
10/22/03
Top CriticMs. Gershon's hot-wired performance infuses Prey for Rock and Roll with a bracing charge of authenticity.
10/16/03
Top CriticCult favorite Gina Gershon is at the top of her smart, snarly game...
08/08/04
It's a raw and raucous rock story that, for once, gets the big picture and the small details right.
10/23/03
Top CriticA satisfying and believable portrait of a rock and roll band's struggles to succeed.
10/10/03
The musical numbers are the only real drag on this otherwise odd and appealing picture.
10/03/03
Top CriticPlayed with the right combination of weariness and optimism by Gina Gershon, Jacki will be recognizable to any woman who has ever strapped on a guitar and plugged in, as well as to those of us who have encountered her.
11/14/03
Top CriticThough it becomes almost laughably melodramatic and wields just about every rock-movie cliche in the book, Gershon's latest holds interest, thanks to her fiercely committed and sexy performance.
10/17/03
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