Great Character Study!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Roadie
MovieHoliks — 10 years ago(August 03, 2015 06:49 AM)
Ron Eldard stars in this terrific character study about a middle-aged roadie who is recently fired from his job working with the has-been band "The Blue Oyster Cult", and so returns to his home town and hangs out at his mom's place, and with some old friends- Bobby Cannavale and Jill Hennessy. Eldard is great in the titular role playing a character not unlike most of us, who wanted to achieve great things in life but had to settle (like most of us do) for second best, sorta living out his fantasies through his next chain of command.
I thought it was interesting they chose an actual real band for him to work for (even though we never see them in the film), and they say in the movie he started working for them twenty years ago-?? -so they were already a "has-been" group when he started with them-?? LOL And possible SPOILER- for those who have already seen this>> did you guess that he was making it all up about him managing and writing songs for them-?? I pretty much did, and thought that was actually a great added touch for the character-?? -really made him more pathetic, but at the same time made you empathize with him to a greater degree-?? Well, I really enjoyed this piece- good performances all around, good music, good dialogue, etc..- now streaming on Showtime!
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chas437 — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 01:32 PM)
I agree completely. The character is so genuine. Ron Eldard is perfect for these sort of manic roles, i.e., House of Sand and Fog, Bastard out of Carolina.
The roadie character reminds me a bit of some guys I went to school with in the late 80s. They embraced the hair metal music and lifestyle, and the dream of perpetual adolescence.
Occasionally, I'll run into one of them, they haven't changed a bit. They wear the same clothes and hairstyles. 50 year old men with the emotional maturity of a 15 year old, bouncing from one low paying job to another.