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Ellen Barkin , who has the small role of the television reporter , Maggie Foley , later said that
she `` despised '' making the film : That was what we liked to call a `` pay the rent '' task .It
was n't a script I liked , but I remember my agent at the time saying , `` Look , you only have
to puzzle out two weeks , and they 're going to compensate you a lot of money .We 'll just
say it was your get-go movie and they just did n't release it . ''I think people were all fucked
up on drugs .I do n't know .I was a little removed , because I was n't on the movie the
unscathed time , but it seemed like it was just a mess .Like , when I 'd go , I 'd think—I like to
make a movie where I know who the boss is .I like a enceinte boss .I like a veridical
director .And it seemed like it was just , `` Who 's driving the ship here ?What 's going on ?
''According to Davidson , when he completed the film , three different studios wanted to
diffuse it , and he went with Embassy Pictures because they offered him the most
money .However , they had no prior experience in distribution and were unable to properly
unloosen it in theaters .Davidson remembered , `` And six months later , somebody said ,
'Your picture is appearing on HBO this weekend , ' and I did n't even know . ''== Soundtrack
== Vance asked Davidson to describe his fictitious stria and their music .Initially , Davidson
said that the Cruisers sounded like Dion and the Belmont Park , but when they meet Frank ,
they have elements of Jim Morrison and The door .However , Davidson did not want to lose
sight of the fact that the Cruisers were essentially a island of Jersey cake ring , and he
thought of Sir David Bruce Springsteen and the atomic number 99 Street banding .The film
maker told Vance to find him someone that could produce music that contained elements of
these three circle .Davidson was getting close to dry run when Vance called him and said
that he had found the band—John Cafferty and the Beaver John Brown Band from
Providence , Rhode Island .Davidson met the circle and realized that they closely resembled
the stripe as described in the script , right down to a Cape Verdean saxophone thespian ,
whom he cast in the pic .Initially , Cafferty was only hired to write a few songs for the film ,
but he did such a good job of capturing the tactile sensation of the 1960s and 1980s that
Davidson asked him to score the entire film .After successful screenings on HBO in 1984 ,
the record album suddenly climbed the charts , going four-fold platinum .The studio re-
released the soundtrack in the fall of 1984 .nine-spot months after the film was released in
dramatics , the principal song in the picture show , `` On the dark side '' , was the number
one song in the commonwealth on billboard 's Mainstream , rock and roll , and Heatseeker
charts ; and # 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart .Another single from the film , `` Tender class
, '' peaked at # 31 on the hoarding Hot 100 .== Reaction == Eddie and the prowl car was
originally intended to open during the summertime , but a scheduling error resulted in a
Sept expiration , when its target area consultation - teenagers - were back in schooling .The
film had its world premiere at Deauville .Embassy pictorial matter threw a promotional
party for the film at a dance club in westward Hollywood in September , 1983 , where
Cafferty and his isthmus played .The picture was a corner office bust , receiving many
disconfirming to desegregate reviews from critics .The moving-picture show was released
in theaters on Sep 23 , 1983 , and grossed $ 1.4 million on its opening weekend .It would go
on to make $ 4.7 million in N America .The celluloid was pulled from theaters after three
calendar week and all of the promotional ads pulled after one workweek .In the fall of 1984 ,
the single `` On the Dark side of meat '' from the soundtrack album suddenly climbed the
charts , as the moving-picture show was rediscovered on overseas telegram television and
family video , prompting the studio to briefly re-release the album .== Critical reception ==
Eddie and the Cruisers was not well received by critics .As of October 2018 , the pic holds a
rating of 38 % on Rotten tomato plant , based on 16 reappraisal .Roger Ebert gave the film
two out of four stars .He wrote , despite a good roll , `` terrific '' medicine and an scheme
construct , `` the ending is so thwart , so dumb , so unsatisfactory , that it gives a bad
reputation to the unscathed picture . ''In her review for The New House of York Times ,
Janet Maslin wrote , `` Some of the details ring uncannily true , like the slick oldie nightclub
human activity that one of the cabin cruiser is still doing nearly 20 years after Eddie 's
supposed death .Other scene of the picture are inexplicably improper .Eddie 's medicine
sounds dear , but it also sounds a lot like Bruce Springsteen 's , and it would not have been
the rage in 1963 . ''However , she did praise Paré 's performance : `` Mr. Paré makes a o.k.
debut ; he captures the manner of a hot-blooded Loretta Young rocker with not bad
conviction , and his lip-synching is almost utter . ''Gary Arnold for The American capital C.
W. Post wrote , `` At any rate , it seemed to me that what Eddie and the squad car aspired to
do was certainly Charles Frederick Worth doing .The job is that it finally lacks the
storytelling resources to tell enough of an connive story about a musical mystery man . ''==
Re-release == In 1984 , Eddie and the police car was discovered by additional consultation
during its first remuneration cable run on HBO .Embassy Pictures re-released the film for
one hebdomad based on successful summertime cable masking and a popular wireless
single , but it once again failed to perform at the box billet .Looking back , Davidson said , ``
that photo should have been a representation success .There was an audience for it .People
still watch it and still state me about it . ''Davidson was offered the job of directing a
subsequence to the motion picture , but he was not acute on the approximation and wanted
no participation .The eventual undertaking , which had no link to the Kluge source novel ,
was released as Eddie and the Cruisers II : Eddie Lives !in 1989 .== household metier == In
1984 , Eddie and the Cruisers was released on VHS videocassette , CED and Laser DVD by
Embassy Home entertainment .== character reference == == Bibliography == Muir , John the
Evangelist Kenneth .The rock and Roll motion picture Encyclopedia .Applause Books ,
2007 .== External nexus == Eddie and the pleasure craft at IMDb Eddie and the Cruisers at
AllMovie Eddie and the police car at Rotten love apple Eddie and the police cruiser at Box
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