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1984Hard to Hold is a 1984 musical drama film directed by Larry Peerce. It was meant as a starring vehicle for Rick Springfield, who had a solid television acting resume and a blossoming rock-pop career, but had yet to break out in feature films. It stars Springfield, Janet Eilber, and Patti Hansen. The film features many Springfield songs which are included on the soundtrack.
James "Jamie" Roberts (played by singer-songwriter Rick Springfield), being a pop idol, is used to having his way with women. He meets child psychologist Diana Lawson (Janet Eilber) in a car accident; however, she has never heard of him and doesn't swoon at his attention. He tries to win her affection, but complicating things is his ex-lover, Nicky Nides (Patti Hansen), who remains a member of his band.
Springfield had been performing music and acting for over a decade when his career went to a new level in the 1980s, due to a successful run of singles and a popular role on General Hospital.[2] He was approached to act in the film. He later recalled:
Director Larry Peerce said "like everyone else, I was skeptical about using Rick. But he is a marvelous, talented, well-trained young man with a wonderful sense of comedy - and sexy as hell.... Anyone who can make it through the soaps can make it through anything. Then, too, he has that thing that happens to people who've been up and down a few times." Peerce added that Springfield "not only appeals to youth, but to mature women, too - and he's also one of those rare handsome, sexy men who doesn't put other men off."[4]
Springfield said, "The freedom of the movies after TV was like going from a wading pool to the ocean."[5]
The female lead, Janet Eilber, was a former dancer. When she was offered the film, she says, "I thought it would be rated PG. After all, the majority of Springfield's fans are teenage girls. But the script plainly called for a nude love scene. I convinced myself it would be a matter of doing the scene under a sheet or something. But two or three days after we shot the scene I realized there was no sheet and there would be no PG."[6]
In December 1983 Springfield said, "Hopefully it will be the only music movie I'll make, because I want to branch out and stretch my wings. I guess you could say it was just a safer script than some of those I was given. I even looked at one script about a case of mistaken identity where a guy is locked up in a garage with a guy who thinks he's somebody else and is trying to kill him. So the music movie looked pretty good."[7]
The film had to be edited so it would be rated PG rather than R.[8]
Springfield followed making the movie with a tour.[9]
Janet Maslin of the New York Times found the film an exercise in narcissistic excess:
Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune had a similar sentiment:
The film opened in seventh place with $3.4 million.[12]
Rick Springfield would later make jokes about the film in his act. He said:
Kinostart: | 1984 31.08.1984 in Deutschland | ||||||||||||
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Genre: | Filmdrama | ||||||||||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigte Staaten | ||||||||||||
Originalsprache: | Englisch | ||||||||||||
IMDB: | 770 | ||||||||||||
Verleih: | The Universal Pictures |
Regie: | Larry Peerce | |
Drehbuch: | Thomas Hedley | |
Kamera: | Richard H. Kline | |
Musik: | Tom Scott | |
Darsteller: | Rick Springfield | |
Janet Eilber |
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