54 Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Christopher
Genres: Drama
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Mark_Christopher wrote and directed this look back at the Disco Era when the popular Studio 54 was at its apogee in the late '70s. With obvious comparisons to Paul_Thomas_Anderson's Boogie_Nights (1997) and Whit_Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), the story introduces working-class 19-year-old Irish-American Shane O'Shea (Ryan_Phillippe), who has lived with his father and siblings since the death of his mother when he was 12. Shane quickly rises from busboy to bartender at Studio 54, co-owned and managed in a paternal manner by entrepreneur Steve Rubell (Mike_Myers). Busboy Greg Randazzo (Breckin_Meyer) and Greg's wife, Anita (Salma_Hayek), the club's coat check girl, become Shane's new friends, and he encounters the possibility of romance with soap star Julie Black (Neve_Campbell). The story spans the summer of 1979 until the decline of Studio 54 a year later with IRS investigations, followed by the arrest and jailing of Rubell. Costumes by Ellen_Lutter capture the glitter and glam-glitz of the period. Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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