- Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ally Sheedy, John Taylor, Michael Des Barres, Beverly D'Angelo
- Format: PAL, Dolby, Surround Sound
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Video Collection International
- VHS Release Date: 21 May 2001
- Run Time: 89 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00005AWFC
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,280 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In Sugar Town, Allison Anders and Kurt Voss come together for a scathingly satirical and yet sweetly emotional, picture of the Los Angeles music industry and of careers on the skids. The mixture of Hollywood B-List actresses in their thirties and former rock gods in the cast list adds a particular poignancy--these are performers who know all this from first-hand experience. Martin Kemp, for example, plays the sole survivor of a super-group killed in a plane crash, hustling hard drugs to keep his phone connected for the career-rebuilding call that may never come. One of the reasons why there are no second acts is the awfulness of the compromises people make to stay stars: John Taylor's Clive is trying to sell a demo album which even the 11 year-old Nerve can see is rubbish--Nerve, possibly Clive's son, was dumped on the doorstep by his nun mother. Funny as much as this is, it is the women who give the film heart: Ally Sheedy's Liz is successful but can't get dates; Clive's wife Eve (Rosanna Arquette) finds herself stuck in Mum roles; Jade Gordon as Gwen will steal and (effectively) kill to get ahead. --Roz Kaveney
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good film, great acting but left you wanting more,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sugar Town [1998] [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A good film which was well acted by an ensemble cast including John Taylor, Martin Kemp and Rosanna Arquette. John Taylor was a natural in front of the camera, as always, and has great acting ability and great chemistry with Rosanna Arquette who plays his wife. The plot focuses on a group of 80's heart-throb's who are trying to recapture their previous success and was enhanced by the clever use of real life 80's heart-throb's John Taylor of Duran Duran and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet. Unfortunately although it was well written and acted it left you wanting to know more about the character's and could have done with being longer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
John Taylor is a very talented actor!,
By Shiloh Kremer - Published on Amazon.com
Sugar Town is a comedy with a good cast of actors. Ally Sheedy is convincing in her role. John Taylor steals the show as a dysfuntional ex rock star. He adds depth to his role by mixing humor into his acting which actually enhances his on screen presence and interaction with the other actors.
The only criticsm I have regarding Sugar Town is that the movie ends too abrupty leaving the viewer with many unanswered questions about what eventually happens to the characters. One example shows that John Taylor is surpised by a little boy who claims to be his long lost son. J.T. has his doubts. However, the movie ends and never reveals if J.T. is the boy's father. Despite this shortcoming, I rate Sugar Town with 4 stars. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
the city of angels has devils too,
By Peter Shelley "petershelley" - Published on Amazon.com
This is like a low-key version of Robert Altman's Short Cuts but without the ironies of Raymond Carver's writing or the brilliance of Altman's direction. Here writer/directors Allison Anders and Kurt Voss present a mosaic of groupings all associated somehow with the members of a British 80's rock band on the comeback trail. If there is a common theme it's probably that Los Angelonos are all manipulative and celebrity seekers. There is no apparent diivision of tone that would explain having two directors, and since it is the female actors that make the stronger impression, it's hard to know which one to congratulate. As the milieu is the music industry, the soundtrack can be justified, though occasionally it's obtrusive - you tend to look to see if someone has a radio on during their conversation to explain the noise. And in one instance some discordant sounds work against the truth of the confession of a rape. There is the odd funny line - a tight dress is described as a "glove", and a songwriter says how the music has to come from somewhere, it's not just waste (the actual word he uses is profane). The narrative provides one act of callousness which approximates the tragedies of Short Cuts, but there is no wrap-up to connect the scenarios for a satisfying conclusion. Anders/Voss provide an amusing cut from an implied blowjob to a carrot stick in a de-juicer, a laugh when a prodigal child raised by a hippie resembles a gothic alien, and a woman checking her makeup as a deliberate strategy to avoid seeing a couple embrace. A plot point about a man refusing to sleep with Beverly D'Angelo seems silly considering how beautiful she looks, and her cynical rich lady is probably the best performance in the film. This film was made after Ally Sheedy's career reinvention in High Art, and she is funny in her self-consciousness when dating. She can survive being imitated by another character, partly because the imitator is the one who commits the act of callousness, though her first scene on a massage table isn't the best introduction. Rosanna Arquette has some nice moments as a possibly cuckolded wife (her response to the hippie is funny), but her brother Richmond Arquette is all hunky method-shoulders and deep voice.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Independent Film,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This film features an excellent cast of known and relatively unkown stars. All give great performances in this movie and is for fans of independent films. If you liked films such as "Pulp Fiction," and "2 Days in the Valley," you'll enjoy this one.
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