I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978VOTE NOW
| Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 21, 1978 |
Starring:
Bobby Di Cicco, Christian Juttner, Eddie Deezen, Marc McClure, Nancy Allen, Read Morgan, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Wendie Jo Sperber, Will Jordan
Summary:
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
A rousingly funny slapstick comedy about the day John, Paul, George and Ringo set off a tidal wave of adolescent hysteria in New York City. Surprisingly, nostalgia accounts for very little of the movie's charm. [01 May 1978, p.91]
Inconsistent but zestful, this farce about the fanatic reactions of a group of New Jersey high-school kids to the first appearance of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan's show is, however, an amiable promise of good times to come - a showcase for fresh, young talent, both behind and before the cameras.
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Director Robert Zemeckis has created a hodgepodge of amateurish, pie-in-the-face humor. The six young stars are untalented, unattractive and about as believable as characters from a Laverne and Shirley episode, and for a solid hour and a half they run around bumping into things. [28 Apr 1978, p.19]
Mar 24, 2022
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is such a fun, goovy, entertaining film, with such an original idea, and with the only band that people will interest in any of their story, even if it's fictionalized or not.
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