Could they possibly made a more boring musical biography of an important American pop singer?
Holly's life which is actually fairly interesting including his dramatic death would have seemed like great source material. However by the time these filmmakers got through with it, his story was just another highly fictionalized narrative of performer who happens to be named Buddy Holly.
A lot has been about the fact that the actors, Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charlie Martin Smith played their own instruments and actually sang on the soundtrack, but lets face it Buddy Holly's music isn't exactly Alban Berg when it comes to being performed. It is fun to see these three actors completely cast against type but again the film doesn't even begin to explore Buddy Holly's split from his group the Crickets.
They cast a former playboy bunny Maria Richwine to play Holly's wife and they even managed to make her boring.
A complete waste of time.
113 minutes.
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