The Go-Go's

Name: The Go-Go's
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 31, 2020
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Jane Wiedlin, Kathy Valentine

2020

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Showtime Networks | Release Date (Streaming): July 31, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Jane Wiedlin, Kathy Valentine, Pleasant Gehman, Stewart Copeland, The Go-Go's

Summary: The Go-Go's are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.

Director: Alison Ellwood

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Todd Gilchrist

Jul 29, 2020

The Go-Go’s tackles the seminal all-female ’80s rock band with such honesty, openness and effervescence that it not only rises above that clichéd, almost telegraphed arc but transcends the ranks of other music documentaries to offer a story you desperately want to keep watching, even when you already know where it’s going. Read full review

Sabina Dana Plasse

Jul 29, 2020

Well-executed interviews of key people and all band members, along with excellent animation and archival research, The Go-Go’s reveals a story of talent, will, friendship, addiction, and forgiveness. The backdrop of the male-dominated music business highlights that these ladies who have stayed brash and whipsmart have always been entirely punk. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Jul 30, 2020

Although The Go-Go’s works marvelously as a scrapbook that will surely delight the viewer who wants to remember the catchy songs and saucy attitudes, it’s also the first time that the band’s story has been rendered as a cultural triumph instead of a cautionary tale. Read full review

David Fear

Jul 29, 2020

The doc’s goal: Don’t think of the Go-Go’s as a bit of Reagan-era nostalgia, the musical equivalent of a Rubik’s cube. Think of them as a first-tier, kick-ass rock group, period, full stop, the end. Mission accomplished. Read full review

John Anderson

Jul 30, 2020

As director Alison Ellwood shows in her briskly entertaining documentary—The Go-Go’s—the band’s members can explain away, with enormous charm, the naked ambition that made them the most successful “girl group” ever. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jul 30, 2020

The Go-Go's has pretty much everything you'd want in a rock documentary, presenting an oral history of the chart-topping all-female group with sex, drugs, music, money, and the intramural squabbling and wounded egos great success tends to unleash. Hard to believe it's been 40 years, but anyone who remembers the band should fall head over heels once again. Read full review

Robert Morast

Jul 29, 2020

This film by Alison Ellwood feels thin. Anemic. Even shortsighted. Sure, the documentary frames the band’s story with that astounding fact of their first number one record, but beyond that underscored point, “The Go-Go’s” plays like paint by numbers for music documentaries. Read full review

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Cpgendusa

Aug 1, 2020

AMAZING and beautifully classy!! Just like The Go-Go’s...CLASSY!!!!

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Luisal93

Aug 1, 2020

Me encantó el film, es una verdadera obra de arte visual, sin duda alguna esta artista sabe hacer material de calidad, mis respetos.

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Pdfortune

Aug 2, 2020

It was interesting. They were some wild gals that wrote some great songs. I’d have liked more dirt on the band. For instance I saw an interview about how they got wild with groupies. The review that called them classy doesn’t make sense. They weren’t classy, but wild cool party chicks.It was interesting. They were some wild gals that wrote some great songs. I’d have liked more dirt on the band. For instance I saw an interview about how they got wild with groupies. The review that called them classy doesn’t make sense. They weren’t classy, but wild cool party chicks. Belinda mentions multiple times how she was an F up.… Expand

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