Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 08/28/1998(USA)
Release Date: 08/17/1999
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs)
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
Mark Christopher wrote and directed this look back at the Disco Era when the popular Studio 54 was at its apogee in the late '70s. With obvious comparisons to
Paul Thomas Anderson's
Boogie Nights (1997) and
Whit Stillman's
The Last Days of Disco (1998), the story introduces working-class 19-year-old Irish-American Shane O'Shea (
Ryan Phillippe), who has lived with his father and siblings since the death of his mother when he was 12. Shane quickly rises from busboy to bartender at Studio 54, co-owned and managed in a paternal manner by entrepreneur
Steve Rubell (
Mike Myers). Busboy Greg Randazzo (
Breckin Meyer) and Greg's wife, Anita (
Salma Hayek), the club's coat check girl, become Shane's new friends, and he encounters the possibility of romance with soap star Julie Black (
Neve Campbell). The story spans the summer of 1979 until the decline of Studio 54 a year later with IRS investigations, followed by the arrest and jailing of
Rubell. Costumes by
Ellen Lutter capture the glitter and glam-glitz of the period.
~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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