Director: Robert Zemeckis.
1978 • U.S.A.
Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Wendie Jo Sperber, Eddie Deezen, Christian Juttner, Will Jordan, Read Morgan, Claude Earl Jones, James Houghton, Michael Hewitson, Dick Miller, Vito Carenzo, Luke Andreas, Roberta Lee Carroll, Sherry Lynn, Irene Arranga, Carole H. Field, Nancy Osborne, Newt Arnold, Wil Albert, Troy Melton, Nick Pellegrino, Martin Fiscoe, Marilyn Stader, Michael Ross Verona, Marilyn Fox, Kristine DeBell, Gene LeBell, Victor Brandt, Roger Pancake, Kimberly Spengel, Bob Maroff, Ivy Bethune, Craig Spengel, Frankie Verroca, Derek Barton, Ed Call, John Malloy, Larry Pines, Dave Adams, Poppy Lagos, Robyn Petty, Paula Watson, The Romanos Dog Act, Murray the 'K', The Beatles, Brian Epstein, George Harrison, Leslie Hoffman, Cary Huff, John Lennon, William Malone, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Nickerson, Leoda Richards, George Sawaya, Rick Sawaya, Ringo Starr, Marty Thomas, Chuck Waters, Jeffrey Weissman.
Posters:
"These youngsters are suffering from
a highly contagious disease called beatlemania.
The symptoms are...
screaming
hysteria
hyperventilation
fainting fits
seizures and
spasmodic convulsions
It isn't fatal but it sure is fun."
"How far would you go to see them?"
"The day Beatlemania hit New York"
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ReplyDeleteThe most important thing about the Beatles arriving in America in January of 1964 to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show is not even mentioned in I Wanna Hold Your Hand. The fact is we were a nation in mourning with our young president slain. The Beatles coming to America was the first thing as a country we got any kind of excited about.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is the story of four young teen girls from New Jersey, Nancy Allen, Wendy Jo Sperber, Susan Kendall Newman, and Theresa Saldana and their quest to see the Beatles up close and personal and maybe get tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show. They inveigle young Marc McClure who is the son of a funeral director in their town to use his limousine, the better to get up to the hotel the Liverpool Lads are staying at. They also pick up Bobby DiCicco who hates the Beatles as foreigners and who are taking the place of his idols the Four Seasons. He's on a mission of his own to halt the broadcast by fair or foul. As history tells us he failed, but you got to see what intervened to prevent him from carrying out his task.
Best in the film is Wendy Jo Sperber, the Beatlemaniac on steroids. She is hilarious in her attempts to get to her Fab Four. Most annoying in the film is Eddie Deezen the nerdy kid she teams up with in her quest. I mean he comes off like SuperNerd, his lack of social graces is painful to watch.
Pieces and whole songs from The Beatles are heard throughout the film, fans will love it. Robert Zemeckis who directed and wrote the film had a real feel for those crazy times in New York in 1964.