54 (film)
- Ryan Phillippe: Shane O'Shea
- Salma Hayek: Anita Randazzo
- Neve Campbell: Julie Black
- Mike Myers: Steve Rubell
- Sela Ward: Billie Auster
- Breckin Meyer: Greg Randazzo
- Sherry Stringfield: Viv
- Ellen Albertini Dow: Disco Dottie
- Cameron Mathison: Atlanta
- Noam Jenkins: Romeo
- Jay Goede: Buck
- Patrick Taylor: Tarzan
- Heather Matarazzo: Grace O'Shea
- Erika Alexander: Ciel
- Mark Ruffalo: Ricko
- Lauren Hutton: Liz Vangelder
- Ron Jeremy Ron
- Sean Gregory Sullivan: Andy Warhol
- Michael York: Ambassador
- Bruce MacVittie: Music Producer
Studio 54 (54, Fifty- Four) is an American film drama directed by Mark Christopher from 1998. It bears his title after the eponymous nightclub Studio 54 in New York.
Action
Shane O'Shea lives in a suburb of New York City in 1979. One day he goes to Manhattan, where he discovered the hip at this time Studio 54. He gets a temporary job as a bartender there and take countless celebrities, including Andy Warhol.
O'Shea is popular, it is called Shane 54 particularly close he befriends with colleagues Anita and Greg Randazzo. It turns out that his employer Greg Steve Rubell steals.
O'Shea falls in love with Julie Black, however, disappointed him. The studio gets targeted by the taxman after Rubell suggests in a television interview that he was committing tax evasion. One day Anita sings on stage, while their performance is an elderly visitor pass out and die. Simultaneously search the authorities searched the offices of the studio. Rubell is arrested and sentenced to a 18-month prison sentence.
Black offers O'Shea on friendship. The studio changed hands; the voice-over says O'Shea, the scene had become boring. The new owner allowed Rubell after his release, to organize a party in the studio rooms.
Reviews
" In the film, a real situation as maudlin as inconsequential story that does not know how to convey the (time) spirit of those years and just stringing together lavish parties as a permanent costume ball developed. Even the overworked lead actor contributes to the failure of the film. "
" Director Mark Christopher tried here the fascinating life of the party night clubs to bring them back to life. But if the festivals were at that time so sterile, lifeless and full of endless Laber land, one wonders how the club could reach such a fame. While Mike Myers offers a studio owner Steven Rubell a good performance and also Salma Hayek is certainly a feast for the eyes, but completely uninspired staggers here Ryan Phillippe through the area. "
Awards
Salma Hayek and the song If You Could Read My Mind was nominated in 1998 for the ALMA Award. Heather Matarazzo was nominated for the Young Star Award 1999. Ryan Phillippe and Ellen Albertini Dow ( Disco Dottie ) were nominated for the Golden Raspberry 1999. Ryan Phillippe and Mike Myers were nominated in 2000 for the Hungarian Csapnivaló Award.
Background
The film was shot in New York City and Toronto. He was shown on 9 September 1998 on the French town of Deauville Film Festival. The film played at production costs of about 13 million U.S. dollars in the cinema of the United States an approximately 16.57 million U.S. dollars.