Rating: 
Summary: Ho-hum...
Review: Well, I really wanted to like this film. The premise is good and we need a film like this but unfortunately this one didn't do it for me. Gina is good in it - she's sassy and tough, with smartass comeback lines and cool hair but her singing was forced. In fact, the IFC documentary "Rocked! With Gina Gershon" (in which she really tours with a real band to promote PFR&R) had her singing much better and believable. The energy of the band was exciting too. As one of the reviews above noted, there is much "forced melodrama" here and cliches abound. Even her fake tattoos look fake. (If she's suppose to be a tattoo artist she wouldn't have ones that look like they were just stamped on with no style or connection to each other) What she does to Tracy's boyfriend is pretty cool though...
All in all, the actors were good but they didn't have much to work with. Too bad...
Rating: 
Summary: Amazing...
Review: What happens when you have a dream, you go for it...and you come up short? This film is a realistic portrayal of the nitty-gritty, dark underbelly of the rock scene. Jacki (Gina Gershon) is an aging rock star with real-life problems...should she keep pursuing the dream and be a 60-year old wanna-be rock star? Or is it time to stop? The movie also shows the consequences your decisions can have on your friends. Gina Gershon give a powerhouse performance hear, even signing all the vocals, and is just flat-out spectacular.As for the quality of the DVD...the movie appears to have been filmed digitally and the picture quality is excellent for a small-budget film such as this one. The sound is great as well. I just wish there were more extras on the making of the movie & perhaps some raw footage of Gina singing.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing...
Review: What happens when you have a dream, you go for it...and you come up short? This film is a realistic portrayal of the nitty-gritty, dark underbelly of the rock scene. Jacki (Gina Gershon) is an aging rock star with real-life problems...should she keep pursuing the dream and be a 60-year old wanna-be rock star? Or is it time to stop? The movie also shows the consequences your decisions can have on your friends. Gina Gershon give a powerhouse performance hear, even signing all the vocals, and is just flat-out spectacular. As for the quality of the DVD...the movie appears to have been filmed digitally and the picture quality is excellent for a small-budget film such as this one. The sound is great as well. I just wish there were more extras on the making of the movie & perhaps some raw footage of Gina singing.
Rating: 
Summary: Pray for a better Rock N Roll Film
Review: While I'll give Gina Gershon credit for trying to come up with a new way of telling the rock dream, I have to say that this piece of product comes up short on original ideas. I know she spent a long time getting to this realization, but more time should have been spent on writing a decent screenplay. The heroine/madonna, herion addict, lesbian couple seems played out.
The energy is there, but when you add awful lines about addiction and why these women have stayed so long in the business, not to mention that if they have been prey to to this lifestyle called Rock N Roll, I just don't buy it. Give me something to beleive in.
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Summary: All my life, all I wanted to be was a rock 'n' roll star
Review: You know there's something wrong with a movie, when you have to wait forty minutes for the drama to develop, and when it does develop, its about a straight couple who's fantasy is a simulated rape scene. Unfortunately, for the couple, and for the movie the rape scene gets out of hand and an unfortunate lesbian becomes the recipient of the man's furtive desires. Obviously, this movie was a labor of love for Gena Gershon, but Prey for Rock and Roll is ultimately hampered by a bad script, a lackluster story, and some of the most dreadful garage singing that you're ever likely to hear.
Set in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Prey for Rock and Roll follows the trials and tribulations of forties quasi-bisexual rocker Jacki (Gina Gershon). The lead singer in a semi lesbian all girl punk band, Jacki is getting on in years and worries whether she is ever going to make it big in a scene where the emphasis is on youth and vitality. Complete with bleached bangs and a collection of tattoos, she spends her days working in a tattoo parlor, while at nights she gets down and rocks out in seedy, grungy pubs. But tragedy seems to be constantly striking her band - one member develops a nasty drug habit, another member is brutally raped, and her lead guitarist is involved in a terrible car accident. The band members then join together and sing depressing (and terrible) songs about these problems. One realizes pretty early on why these girls can't land a lucrative record deal.
Gershon is undoubtedly edgy and sexy but her pseudo-lesbianism comes across as forced and unbelievable, particularly when she develops an attraction to Animal, the brother of one of her band members. Animal is played by the sexy Marc Blucas, although it would have been nice for his character to be more developed. Gershon is the only reason to watch the film, her performance is courageous mainly because she does her own singing and she has a kind of earthy, sexy appeal that lends itself well to this kind of character. The film raises some interesting questions about the ruthlessness of the music industry, but nothing is ever developed beyond the clichés of the over-the-hill manager, and the tragic (and misguided) connection of drugs with this kind if music. Mike Leonard October 04.
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