Friday, August 25, 2017

Sunnyside (1979)

How bad is it? One of the worst "let's get the relative of someone famous" films.
Should you see it? Not even if you could find it.


This got a VHS release in the 1980's and I haven't seen a copy of it since, so I'm going by very fuzzy memories here. Joey Travolta tried to capitalize on his brother's sudden success, by acting and by singing, before he started working behind the camera; this was his first film. Travolta plays a guy who wants to leave his run-down New York neighborhood with his girlfriend, but first he has to make the streets safe from the local gang - I don't think the plot made more sense than that. There's a lot of forgettable pop songs, some bad acting and poor dialogue and uninvolving action scenes. Some TV actors, like Eric Lanueville and Talia Balsam, can be spotted in the cast.

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