Stir of Echoes/The Minus Man/Sugar Town/Best Laid Plans/On the Ropes

Not great but well written and interesting enough to engage for the duration of the film

Surprisingly good character-driven film about waning rock and movie stars.

An amusing little film set in a not-so-amusing industry.

Naturalistic, funny, charming, bittersweet winner!

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Allison Anders

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Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, she tries to steal her boy friend who is a music pr...

Sugar Town

Short on plot, but long on appeal.

&quot;Sugar Town,&quot; Allison Anders and Kurt Voss&apos;s comedy-drama about life on the fringes of the music world, doesn&apos;t have an actual story per se - it&apos;s more of a collection of vignettes that don&apos;t make a unified whole, but if it&apos;s a mess, it&apos;s a likeable one.

Following an ambitious young singer (Jade Gordon), a production designer (Ally Sheedy) who makes friends with her, a session guitarist with a pregnant wife who gets a shot at a tour with a Latin singer, a group made up of former British rock stars (amusingly, all played by actual former British rock stars) whose big deal is dependent on Beverly D&apos;Angelo&apos;s lust for one of them (&quot;If she had a teenage daughter... but you know how Nick is about having sex with adult women&quot;), and Rosanna Arquette coping with a) getting offered a role as Christina Ricci&apos;s mother and b) finding her ex-rock star husband may or may not have fathered a son on tour.

The movie&apos;s casual tone leaves a few of these lines unresolved, and if it&apos;s a bother that the movie&apos;s most unsympathetic character never gets hers, the movie&apos;s abrupt ending seems more of a natural progression than a mistake on the part of the writers. References to Fiona Apple and Blur already make it seem a bit dated, but there are plenty of fun moments throughout (such as Michael Des Barres&apos; attempt to pick up Bijou Phillips in a bar and the sight of Arquette bonding with her stepson). Not overly significant, but worth seeing. And it&apos;s nice to see Rosanna Arquette in a good movie for once - when her character comments that she hasn&apos;t been getting decent scripts, us fans know what she means.

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"Sugar Town," Allison Anders and Kurt Voss's comedy-drama about life on the fringes of the music world, doesn't have an actual story per se - it's more of a collection of vignettes that don't make a unified whole, but if it's a mess, it's a likeable one.

Following an ambitious young singer (Jade Gordon), a production designer (Ally Sheedy) who makes friends with her, a session guitarist with a pregnant wife who gets a shot at a tour with a Latin singer, a group made up of former British rock stars (amusingly, all played by actual former British rock stars) whose big deal is dependent on Beverly D'Angelo's lust for one of them ("If she had a teenage daughter... but you know how Nick is about having sex with adult women"), and Rosanna Arquette coping with a) getting offered a role as Christina Ricci's mother and b) finding her ex-rock star husband may or may not have fathered a son on tour.

The movie's casual tone leaves a few of these lines unresolved, and if it's a bother that the movie's most unsympathetic character never gets hers, the movie's abrupt ending seems more of a natural progression than a mistake on the part of the writers. References to Fiona Apple and Blur already make it seem a bit dated, but there are plenty of fun moments throughout (such as Michael Des Barres' attempt to pick up Bijou Phillips in a bar and the sight of Arquette bonding with her stepson). Not overly significant, but worth seeing. And it's nice to see Rosanna Arquette in a good movie for once - when her character comments that she hasn't been getting decent scripts, us fans know what she means.

pregnant character played by pregnant actress

Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, she tries to steal her boy friend who is a music producer by offering sexual favors. The producer meanwhile is trying to orchestrate a comeback for a former glam band played by Michael Des Barres (of Power Station fame), John Taylor (from Duran Duran), and Martin Kemp (from Spandau Ballet). Rosanna Arquette plays the former movie star wife of the lead singer, who is fretting because she has just been offered the role as the mother of one of the new ingenious. Beverly D'Angelo also shows up as a millionairess who agrees to bankroll the group, but only if she gets a roll in the hay with the lead singer. All of the career problems, including drug proclivity, are represented in this film.

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