Synopsis
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneNick
- Dolly PartonJake Ferris
- Richard FarnsworthNoah Ferris
- Ron LeibmanFreddie Ugo
- Tim ThomersonBarnett Kale
- Steve PeckFather
- Penny SantonMother
- Russell BuchananElgart
- Ritch BrinkleyLuke
- Jerry PotterWalt
Recommendations
- 63
Miami Herald
Attention-getting it is. Entertaining, too. But meaningful? Are you kidding? [22 Jul 1984, p.D1] - 50
Christian Science Monitor
A country singer wagers that she can teach her trade to a New York cabbie, with predictable results. Directed by Bob Clark, who mostly exploits the presold personalities of stars Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone. - 50
The New York Times
Rhinestone isn't unrelievedly terrible. It is helped by a director, Bob Clark, who treats the material good- humoredly and takes it lightly, as well as by a funny supporting cast. - 50
Newsweek
The movie feels like a half-hour skit blown up, like its stars, to unwieldy proportions. [02 Jul 1984, p.45] - 42
The A.V. Club
For all its cornball charm Rhinestone ultimately does little to disprove the widespread notion that the "funny Sylvester Stallone comedy" remains a pop-culture oxymoron. - 30
Variety
Effortlessly living up to its title, Rhinestone is as artificial and synthetic a concoction as has ever made its way to the screen. - 30
TV Guide Magazine
Whereas the badly miscast Stallone never gets a handle on the material (albeit there isn't much to get a hold of), Parton manages to rise above the script and is appealing. The multiple costume changes that she and Stallone make, however, are no substitute for laughs. - 30
Washington Post
Unfortunately, Rhinestone is content to cackle and scratch around at such a dumb cluck level of facetiousness that what began as a "cute" idea degenerates into a moronic one. [22 Jun 1984, p.B8]
