I don't do this very often, but the following is a review I wrote recently:   
       
   Satisfaction (1988)   
       
   Justine Bateman as Jennie Lee   
   Liam Neeson as Martin Falcon   
   Trini Alvarado as Mooch   
   Scott Coffey as Nickie   
   Britta Phillips as Billy   
   Julia Roberts as Daryle   
   Debbie Harry as Tina   
   Chris Nash as Frankie   
   Michael DeLorenzo as Bunny Slotz   
   Tom O'Brien as Hubba   
   Steve Cropper as Sam   
       
   I saw this movie 27 years after it was made.  When I saw that Johanna Ray was   
   the casting director (now a defunct title), I knew there was a 99% chance I   
   would like this film and I liked it very much.  It has a very good script by   
   Charles Purpura and the direction by Joan Freeman was excellent.   
       
   I don't know who the actual musicians were that played the wonderful   
   arrangements (another plus in the film) of "C'mon Everybody", "Knock on Wood",   
   "Lies" and "Mystery Dance", but I am sure of one thing.  The only way I'll be   
   convinced that Trini Alvarado wasn't playing the drums in this movie is if she   
   told me to my face.  Britta Phillips had all the funny lines and was   
   convincing as the lead guitarist and she was also a foil for Julia Roberts'   
   character, as well as someone who knew how to make friends with a hostile dog.   
       
   Justine Bateman was convincing as the lead singer for Mystery, but her   
   problem, and I make no judgment here, of entering a relationship with a man   
   old enough to be her father is questionable, but the heart wants what the   
   heart wants.  Without her, however, there would be no band.   
       
   This was a solid movie and I could tell everyone worked very hard to make it   
   convincing.   
       
   A note about the songs: I never thought that anyone would or could top Nancy   
   Sinatra's rendition of "Lies", but this group did.  Eddie Cochran's "C'mon   
   Everybody" and Elvis Costello's "Mystery Dance" were overshadowed by what   
   Jennie Lee's band did to them.  The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" is a   
   standalone arrangement and while I like both, I have to give the edge to   
   Jennie Lee and Mystery's version, as performed at the end of the movie.   
       
   For a rating, depending on how one rates movies, mine is as follows:   
       
   9 out of 10   
   4 out of 5 stars   
   Thumbs up   
       
   The reason the first two aren't perfect scores is two fold.  One, there is a   
   rat running across the bottom of the screen from right to left, as viewed,   
   near the end of the band's performance of "Lies" and two, during the fight   
   scene that followed shortly thereafter, where were the bouncers and why did   
   the band have to take on Bunny Slotz's gang alone?   
       
   Those two reasons weren't enough to cause me to dislike the film.  I was   
   entertained by it and that is the reason I gave it high marks.   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
   --- D'Bridge 3.99   
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