Synopsis
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
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Cast
- Ron EldardJimmy Testagross
- Lois SmithMom
- David MarguliesDon Miller
- Bobby CannavaleRandy Stevens
- Jarlath ConroyWes
- Suzette GunnLizette Santiago
- Jill HennessyNikki Stevens
- Lourdes MartinCop
- Arian MoayedIrfan
- Lucy SpainMotel Hooker
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
It's here, in a keenly captured Forest Hills, Queens, land of low-lit bars and manicured lawns, that Roadie soars as a gently comic drama about living the dream - or trying to. - 80
New York Daily News
Michael Cuesta's perfectly-pitched indie captures the pain of arrested development with so much empathy and insight, you can't help but root for the unmoored, overgrown adolescent at its center. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
A lot of what takes place in Roadie feels overly familiar, and the film could have been a wallow in pathos except for the performances, especially that of Eldard. - 70
Variety
Roadie features some wonderfully evocative music out of its characters' collective past (local legends the Good Rats, for instance) but like Jimmy himself, it takes a bit of a push to get the picture going, which it gets, both emotionally and dramatically, thanks largely to its ensemble. - 70
Village Voice
Eldard, with eyes projecting adolescent vulnerability and a body lost to awkward midlife chub, is enough to redeem Cuesta's indie commonplaces. - 63
New York Post
Soulfully directed by Michael Cuesta ("L.I.E."), Roadie is short on narrative momentum, but it's a perfectly attuned character study of this rock relic and his middle-aged sorrows. - 60
Salon
I simultaneously want to endorse its ambition and nerve and report that it's a very mixed bag. - 60
The New York Times
One problem is Jimmy and his mother's dialogue, which continues in the same clichéd vein as the opening scenes of him alone yelling and yammering into his cell.
