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The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

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Summary: The musical career of Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou," a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be The Day" up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely death. (imdb)
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Genres: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Directed By: Steve Rash
More information at the Internet Movie Database
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na ecalder
58
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na ans
83
T7
na leg0128
80
T7
na IMDb-byvotes
71
T6
na Exaybachay
59
T1
na CMQuinn
70
T6
na jkathrens
80
T8
na tonydal
70
T4
Hokey script (and sometimes direction, especially of audience reactions), but a winning performance from Busey. Also Richwine is very good (along with Janis). Truly hilarious moment with stage manager (a nice spoof of the Sullivan show). Nice touch to stop before the crash, thus emphasizing his life. An awful lot of liberties taken with real events though. And Busey's memory for lyrics was like a sieve (maybe he should've written them on his hands, like John Lennon did).
na JordanDcFc
75
T6
na hungrybear
6
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na Critic120403
70
T3
na Jazzaloha
70
T7
na pain20040
80
T7
na chiphall72
85
T8
na Fetsch
69
T5
na Bevo52
83
T7
na jeff_v
57
T3
na Ofterdingen
70
T8
na screentime
73
T7
na BillyShears
85
T9
The beginning of Gary Busey's madness.
na lineuphere
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na Antares
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na AAAutin
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na jeffayle
70
T6
na avgcrtckr
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na Gordon Cole
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na buser333
54
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na vmboudreau
50
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na Nick91
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na DougCollins
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na ari
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na zxcv
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na svenerik
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na Frankie
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na mic_
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na klanc11
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na ElvisTR
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na kangadoodoo
55
T4
na ricko
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T10
na losingctrl
90
T9
na RNG
90
T10
na ZombieBuffet
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na TheRev
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na Travisbickle
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na LadyBird
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na chinless
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na allisoncm
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na oakwoodjoe
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na TroyAnderson
80
T9
na KungFuDolly
8
T8
na TheDiceman
75
T10
Excellent.
na jgnikkila
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na mike615
83
T10
na MaxBaron
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na dustron
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na welike
20
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na XakkMaster
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na CRB9000
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na JJJames
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na Bugsy89
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na ShogunRua
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An amazing performance by Busey as the title character, but it can't completely make up for how bland and simplistic both the direction and script are. It's neither a realistic portrayal of Buddy Holly nor exceptionally exciting. Despite this, the ensemble acting and Busey in particular still make this an entertaining, worthwhile picture throughout. They breath life and interest into many otherwise stale scenes, but it's not quite enough to call the film "good". No real punchline, either.
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na eriond
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na negative
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na dagda2
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na maddriver52
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na imdb
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na kyle.loomis
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na filmaffinity
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na rb42083
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na 5thHobbit
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na DaeSanye
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na rwhirata
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na RPMcMurphy
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Average Tier 6.09 from 78 Rankings rss