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Give My Regards to Broad Street

Paul McCartney , Bryan Brown , Peter Webb    PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)   DVD
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
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Screenwriter/Star Paul McCartney creates a rousing musical fantasy about a pop singer/composer (McCartney) who discovers the master tapes of his new unreleased album have disappeared. If he doesn't locate them by midnight, businessmen will take over his company. Among the musical highlights are fourteen spectacularly staged McCartney tunes including Beatles classics "Yesterday," "Eleanor Rigby" and "Good Day Sunshine."

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Amazing misstep Aug 25 2010
By Kona TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
In this odd and very bad movie, we see Paul McCartney as he goes about an average day of appointments, all the time trying to find the missing and irreplaceable master tapes for his next album. We see him rehearse and perform some Beatles and Wings songs with Ringo on drums and wife Linda doing whatever it was she did. His search for the tapes includes many dream sequences and even a pointless and embarrassing visit with his deceased father in the person of the late Sir Ralph Richardson.

The movie is a confusing and dreary mishmash of reality, drama, and music videos created by screenwriter and star McCartney. Sadly it is depressing and boring, completely devoid of life and energy. The most that can be said about Paul's 'performance' is that he had the good taste to look totally disinterested the whole time; despite the threatened take-over of his company if the tapes cannot be found, he maintains a glum pokerface as does the rest of the cast. I didn't care about the plot because he didn't seem to care. This must have been his attempt to make a cinema vérité film similar to "A Hard Day's Life," but there is not a moment of humor or even pleasant camaraderie with his coworkers; he wanders from place to place like a sleepy zombie. Wife Linda is seen but never mentioned nor does she speak, and Ringo's wife plays a journalist who just hangs around and stares at Ringo.

This project must have looked much better on paper and I'm sure McCartney thought this would show him as a sensitive actor and artiste; unfortunately, we see just the opposite - a man who can afford to star in his own movie even if it's a waste of time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Anything by a Beatle is great! April 17 2013
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I liked it better after I watched it twice. The music was great! The plot was a little slow I thought.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars for pure fun, but... Feb 1 2010
By Wendy
Format:DVD
Non Spoiler Review:

A thoroughly enjoyable movie for a number of reasons. There are fun intentional gags in the style of the Beatle's Help. There are unintentionally funny parts in which physics and McCartney's acting skills are challenged. Written by Paul McCartney of Beatles and Wings fame himself, or was it by McCney? That is the question. An art movie? A comedy? A light fantasy? A personal journey of introspection for him, or a revelation of such to us? I believe it is a combination of all of the above.
There's no doubt about the artistry of the music, and visuals accompanying them. With Sir Paul that's pretty much a given. This movie can easily be touted as a bona fide collection of videos, whether one likes the scripted parts in between or not. He and the studio didn't skimp on the musical sequences, which come fast and furious for those wading impatiently through the admittedly and intentionally silly plot. Now how about artistry in the script writing? I believe there actually is some, despite McCartney's lack of experience. Smooth and clever fades into different scenes, touching moments, wit and humour. It's too bad he didn't have some collaboration with an experienced script writer to polish some of the dialogue, and a film director who caught and re-shot the badly acted parts. This could perhaps have been a great movie instead of a really fun one.
The comedy is silly, just plain fun. It often features Ringo, a wonderful addition to this post Beatles McCartney project.
The plot is not technically fantasy, but slips into that genre through dream sequences, often beautifully done. A scene with a ghost Linda McCartney on a gorgeous horse is eerie now that she's passed away from cancer.
One of my favourite aspects of the film is what seems to be a connection to painful events in McCartney's life of that time period. He picked up his pen for this in another down phase of his career, brought on by the double whammy in 1980 of a pot related jail term in Japan pulling the plug on his Wings band, then the shooting death of his still close friend John Lennon. Considering his comment to an interview that he "wrote it for his sins" and one of the main characters being an ex-con who may really be a good guy, and the first scene with Paul being of him writing "Not such a Bad Boy, " and his choice of other songs, I believe he had a message to send with the film.
I really enjoyed this, but in the end, it's up to each individual to decide if this movie puts the art in McCartney or not.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Give My Regards to Broad Street
This is a must have for Paul McCartney fans. The story line is thin but really it is all about the music and the music is fantastic. Read more
Published 19 months ago by John Leschinski
5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Beat the Music!
There are at least 10 scenes in this movie that can stand on their own as great music videos. In this movie, you get them all plus more. Read more
Published on Aug 2 2010 by xanadu
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Movie for Any True Beatles Fan!
While nobody should be fooled into believing that this is a real movie with a real storyline to begin with, viewers should realize from the get-go that this is nothing more than a... Read more
Published on July 10 2004 by C. Zabat
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutly out of this world!
I loved this movie in fact I had to buy two VHS movies of this great film because I didn't want to wear the other out and find that the movie wouldn't be available! Read more
Published on Jun 19 2004 by Lee Knickle
2.0 out of 5 stars Glad to have it on DVD
It ain't the best movie ever made, but it ain't the worst.

Two big mistakes McCartney made with this project: 1) re-recording old songs (including a half-dozen Beatle tunes),... Read more

Published on Jun 8 2004 by TheBandit
3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre at best
It is absolutely absurd that anyone could truthfully rate this above 3 stars. "Concert for George", "The Godfather", "A Hard Days Night" those are 5... Read more
Published on May 28 2004 by Colin Klein
3.0 out of 5 stars Macca's Career Mistake
obviously this shoould have been released to some MTV or HBO station when it was initially released and the'aura' surrounding the project (and the very serious damage it did to... Read more
Published on May 23 2004 by Steven Stanz
1.0 out of 5 stars I Need Lysol
I need lysol to remove the smell left behind from this turkey, everything about this movie stinks, I saw this movie in 84 and was embarrassed then, why bring back such horrible... Read more
Published on May 17 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars Memo to the 'one star' wolf-pack: Let It Be!
In retrospect, it seems infamous big-budget flops like "Ishtar" and "Heaven's Gate" perhaps 'deserved' all the merciless attacks. Read more
Published on May 13 2004 by D. Hartley
1.0 out of 5 stars Ouch!
Haven't seen the DVD but the vhs is one of those moments were it is truly embarrassing to be a Beatle fan. Integrity, coolness, innovation ... all gone. Read more
Published on May 11 2004
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