Hearts of Fire is a 1987 American musical drama film starring and loosely based on Bob Dylan’s success as a rock musician. It received universally poor reviews, a limited theatrical release, and was later written off by Dylan himself.
Also though, Hearts of Fire is an unintentionally hilarious car crash of a movie, featuring a perpetually bemused-looking, mumbling Bob Dylan as an reclusive ageing rock star, with the heroically mulleted Rupert Everett as the “young punk” usurper. And Fiona…
Sadly, director Richard Marquand – of “Return of the Jedi” fame – died not long after Hearts of Fire came out. But not, as some wags opined at the time, out of embarrassment.
Co-writer Joe Estherhaus went on to plumb further depths with “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls”. But nothing of either men’s output prepares the viewer for Hearts of Fire, which amongst other delights features the most rubbish punch ever thrown on celluloid. No seriously…
Join your host Joe Nawaz as Now Press Play celebrates one of the most notorious forays into that most slippery of genres. The rock and roll biopic.
“Dear lord. A really bad movie,” DVDLaser
“An incredibly blunt instrument of 80s vacuity” Channel 4
“Where’s my cheque, man?” B. Dylan
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