American Anthem (1986)

Director:

Albert Magnoli

Writers:

Evan Archerd (writer)
Jeff Benjamin (writer)

Release Date:

27 junio 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sport

Plot:

Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym...

Plot Keywords:

Olympic Gymnast Turned Actor | Overcoming Fear | Gymnastics | Friendship | Orchestral Music Score

Awards:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pretty horrible

Cast

Mitchell Gaylord	...	Steve Tevere (as Mitch Gaylord)
Tiny Wells	...	Jake
Janet Jones	...	Julie Lloyd
Michael Pataki	...	Coach Soranhoff
Patrice Donnelly	...	Danielle
R.J. Williams	...	Mikey Tevere
John Aprea	...	Mr. Tevere
Michelle Phillips	...	Linda Tevere
Katherine Gosney	...	Landlady
Stacy Maloney	...	Kirk Baker
Peter Tramm	...	Ron Denver
Maria Anz	...	Becky Cameron
Jenny Ester	...	Tracy Prescott
Andrea Bianchi	...	Arthur
Dick McGarvin	...	Announcer Prelim Meet

También conocida como:

Días rebeldes (Spain) [es]

Duración:

102 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Company:

Lorimar Productions

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hot Rod (2007)

Soundtrack:

Take it Easy

Pretty horrible

An ex-gymnast (Mitch Gaylord) with severe family problems, meets another up and coming gymnast (Janet Jones), falls in love and (of course) becomes a gymnast again and goes for the gold...or something like that. I was so bored it's hard to remember.

Boring, utterly predictable story with lousy dialogue. Also Gaylord and Jones are absolutely horrible actors...both are beautiful with great bodies but that's it. This isn't really a movie...it plays like a series of (bad) rock videos string together with a flimsy plot. There's almost nonstop music throughout the movie. No characters, no motivations, no nothing...just music.

A few things save this from total disaster--Some of the music is good and compliments the visuals nicely; the movie looks good (in a rock video sort of way); there are plenty of nice shots showing Gaylord in nothing but black shorts and the gymnastics are truly incredible. That's about it.

Also this is the first movie to make it from theaters to video stores in three months! It bombed so badly the studio rushed it out to video quickly to get rid of it.