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Rhinestone (1984)
Directed by Bob Clark
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Overview
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin’ star, she’s out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He’s scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
Rated PG | Length 111 minutes
Actors
Sylvester Stallone | Dolly Parton | Richard Farnsworth | Ron Leibman | Tim Thomerson | Steve Peck | Penny Santon | Russell Buchanan | Ritch Brinkley | Jerry Potter | Jesse Welles | Phil Rubenstein | Thomas Ikeda | Christal Kim | Arline Miyazaki | Tony Munafo | Don Hanmer | Dean Smith | David Cobb | Speck Rhodes | Guy Fitch | Stan Yale | Robert Cook | Cindy Perlman | Robert Martini | Michael Adams | Don Munson | Bobbie La Salle | Jordan Myers | Bill Dearth | JuLee Erdahl | Robin D. Adler | Shelley Pogoda | Laura Kingsley | Rod Ball | Troy Evans | Tony Compton | Gary Compton | Dean Wein | Adrienne Hampton | Lonna Montrose | Don Keller | Ross St. Phillip | Jill Gordon | Douglas Buttleman | Leslie Morris | Stan Wells | Chip Heller | Larry Weiss | Sandy Policare | Paul 'Mousie' Garner | Joseph Sheppard | Dair Morris | Gene Norman Wells | Sterling Roblee | Dean Webber | James Silverman | Bill Owens | John Owens | Lester Owens | Louis Owens | Don Warden | Del Wood | Mark Anderson | Floyd Parton | Randy Parton | Dale Puckett | Dwight Puckett | Mike Baird | John Bidasio | Richard Dennison | John Goux | Joey Scarbury | Leland Sklar | Cynthia Lea Clark | Paul LeClair | Brian L. McCarty | Ernesto Molinari | Randall Rutledge | Frank Slaten | Ted Smile
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/12/2012 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 3 stars |
| (Average) 3 stars |
Viewing Notes
Somehow RHINESTONE was a mainstay of my Eighties childhood. It seems like my mom (or maybe me) was always watching it on VHS. I was endlessly entertained by it, or really bored; I’m not sure which.
In the 20 years since I saw it last, it’s been one of those things where bits stick in your head, like Stallone’s yellow cab shirt or his flashy rhinestone suit. I never had any overriding concern to see it again though, until it hit Netflix about the same time that Glen Campbell of “Rhinestone Cowboy” was performing on The Grammys. It seemed like a sign.
How does it hold up? Well…not as well as I’d remembered. Stallone is ok, but he really starts to ascend nerves quickly in the first half of the movie. Maybe that’s the whole point, but luckily he actually starts to become kinda charming in the second half. Dolly is Dolly is Dolly. She has a candence that she always delivers with that’s so Dolly, but it serves and she’s charming enough. I just wish she had more opporunity to sing in RHINESTONE.
RHINESTONE is one of those films that borders on being great, but as it is, it’s best left for once-a-decade viewing.
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