Synopsis
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
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Cast
- Tom BerengerFrank Ridgeway
- Michael ParéEddie Wilson
- Joe PantolianoDoc Robbins
- Ellen BarkinMaggie Foley
- Matthew LauranceSal Amato
- Helen SchneiderJoann Carlino
- David WilsonKenny Hopkins
- Michael 'Tunes' AntunesWendell Newton
- Kenny VanceLew Elson
- John StockwellKeith Livingston
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
Pare lacks charisma as Eddie, but the Bruce Springsteen-like music (by John Cafferty, who dubs Eddie's singing voice, and his Beaver Brown Band) was good enough to put the soundtrack album in the Top 40 charts. - 70
Time Out
Low key and, despite the music, rather likeable. - 60
The New York Times
Vivid, full of conviction and more than a little foolish at times. - 60
The Dissolve
Eddie And The Cruisers is a hodgepodge of seemingly unmarketable ingredients: a complicated flashback structure, oblique nods to Elvis Presley conspiracy theories and The Beach Boys’ unreleased opus Smile, and anachronistic Bruce Springsteen-style frat-rock. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Eddie and the Cruisers is all buildup and no payoff. - 50
ReelViews
Whatever goodwill the movie builds up during its first 85 minutes is thrown away in the idiotic, anticlimactic final ten. - 50
Miami Herald
A few times, when Eddie and the Cruisers are making their music, the movie begins to hook you. But less-than-skillful plotting always lets you off the hook, and the ending is a letdown and a tease. [26 Sept 1983, p.6] - 50
Washington Post
It seemed to me that what Eddie and the Cruisers aspired to do was certainly worth doing. The problem is that it finally lacks the storytelling resources to tell enough of an intriguing story about a musical mystery man. [30 Sept 1983, p.E2]
