Having a Wild Weekend

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02/03/2019 Definitely a period piece that does not hold up to its counterpart from the same period A Hard Day's Night. This stars the Dave Clark Five but features no actual performance footage of them playing their songs. Most of it just seems to be Dave Clark playing "Steve" roaming around with the main character blonde girl. There is no real plot it's just them going to different locations and then everybody dancing around to Dave Clark Five music. The only song of note featured in the film is Catch Us If You Can. Not a good movie even if you are a fan of the Dave Clark Five. Avoid it unless you really want to see footage of the U.K in 1965 or are a real die hard fan. See more 07/10/2014 Meh. The Dave Clark Five do their best to recreate "Hard Days Night" to not much effect. John Boorman made his directorial debut with this dud, though you can see hints of his visual style that would surface in his future films. The five plays stuntmen who team up with a model (for the product "meat") and go on wacky adventures in 1960s swinging' London. See more 03/22/2014 It's very true that Dick Lester beat Boorman to the punch with A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and unlike The Beatles the boys from the Dave Clark Five are pretty charisma free but this works far more often than it fails. Well worth seeing. See more 03/07/2012 even in its awesomeness its still a "hhard day's night knock-off' See more 12/16/2009 The light rhythms of the editing and the duration of every camera movement are so absolutely perfect, and every framing is so right... It's Boorman's first feature but the filmmaking is already his most mature. And the movie itself maintains a "mature outlook" on youth that somehow doesn't offer self-righteous hindsight or patronizing nostalgia. Some of the acting inexperience of the Dave Clark Five had to be written around but there is a lot of good dialogue, and Barbara Ferris's performance keeps the story from becoming dippy. Catch Us If You Can has a wonderful documentary aspect, capturing of English streets against the commercial side of pop culture -- with the actors, fake ad campaign and the filmmaking apparatus being toted throughout the country. And it has a great centerpiece that the screenwriter won't let finish as sardonic: an inheritance-fed husband and wife, in a extended quarrel of a marriage, half-tries to seduce the young lovers ... but, as though by necessity of their aging faces, settle on proving that their spouse is jealous. They're confessed escapists, part-time vampires of youth culture. But in participating in the runaway couple's adventure, they somehow find themselves again and see each other -- unselfconsciously, at a costume party which adult hosts have stocked with youths -- as if the painful years had never transpired. It feels like a youthful wish implanted in the audience: wanting against all probability that the husband and wife will remember each other like that once the scene is over. See more 11/19/2009 Brilliant film! The first produced by Boorman, it is a healthy antidote to the more summery films of the 60s like Help. The car--an E-type Jaguar--alone makes it worth watching! See more Read all reviews

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