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02/09/06
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
Reviews for Prey for Rock & Roll
Top CriticThere'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
[A] smartly feminist exploration of what it means to wake up one day with too many tattoos and fading dreams of fame.
09/26/03
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11/08/03
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07/21/05
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12/06/05
Top CriticGershon rocks the screen
10/11/03
The execution is as stale as the draft beer in some of the joints where the band entertains.
09/30/03
Take an amateur playwright with an ax to grind, a novice director without the slightest idea of what he is doing and an actress who confuses sleaze with grittiness, and you have the makings of a first-rate flop.
10/02/03
'Prey for Rock and Roll' is as grungy and sleazy as a film about lesbian punk rockers who haven't made it by age 40 can be. It's also an exuberant celebration of the music life, no matter how dire, demeaning and heartbreakingly disappointing it can get.
09/26/03
Edgy, 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
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06/14/05
Director Alex Steyermark, making a fluid, textured debut, shapes this long, midfilm sequence like a thriller, and it works, but once it plays out, all that's left is the tension-free question of whether Jacki will quit the band.
09/25/03
...a fairly enjoyable look at the trials and tribulations of an all-girl punk band.
10/28/03
Alternatively sharp-witted and bracingly sad, the film fixes firmly on Gershon's floppy, unruly bangs and never lets go.
09/19/03
[Gershon] is riveting as the driven and decent rocker who won't give up.
09/28/03
Gershon's self-aware shtick is either titillating or irritating, depending on your taste, but the rest of the actors are uniformly excellent.
10/17/03
Nothing drives the film, the dialogue is awful, and dramatic tensions are completely missed.
10/03/03
Either very cynical or quite naive, and that title suggests the former.
10/10/03
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