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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790738802 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790738805 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 14, 1998 Running Time: 119 minutes Sales Rank: 7193 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1980
Description: A country and western singer jeopardizes his marriage and his career when he has an affair with the young daughter of his longtime musical sidekick.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Willie Nelson and Company
Did not know Dyan Canon could sing; she did a great job. A good music show
Rating: - The music by itself makes it 5 stars
If the purpose of this movie was to showcase Willie and his band to movie audiences rather than shoot for an Oscar, then it works, because the music is outstanding. I was blown away that beautiful Dyan Cannon has a great singing voice. Amy Irving is also enjoyable to watch and listen to. But obviously Willie himself is the star of the show, and his singing is unbeatable. I find myself clapping at the end of "Angel Flying Too Close" while watching this video-- hey, it's that good!
The story is pretty trite, but there are some hilarious parts in it. In fact, if you look at it as a comedy ... Read More
Rating: - A Definite Classic!
I saw it when I was a young fan, and now I'm an old fan, and I still love it! Classic country, classic Willie Nelson(when he actually sang the whole song, not syncopated short cuts!), classic somebody-done-somebody-wrong-song.
Willie Nelson basically play himself in the movie, but also plays a typical country singer. His wife, Dyan Cannon, like they all are, is very supportive, but misses him like crazy when he's "on the road again".
She tries to convince him to stay when he's home, and does a bang-up job scheduling his show dates when does go back out. He takes his lifelong ... Read More
Rating: - Dyan Cannon shines in wonderful backstage musical-romance
1980's "Honeysuckle Rose" is best known as the first film to star Willie Nelson, but its true shining star is Dyan Cannon, in a wonderful, atypically understated performance as Willie's loyal wife.
Nelson stars as Buck Bonham, a Nelsonesque country singer who arrives home after an extended road tour to spend time with wife and former musical partner Viv (Cannon), who has retired to raise their preteen son Jamie (Joey Floyd). After an extended, and very well-filmed, family reunion sequence, Buck heads back out onto the road, except without his longtime lead guitarist Garland Ramsay (Slim ... Read More
Rating: - What's Not to Like?
One of the feel-good movies of the 80s, "Honeysuckle Rose" wears well. Willie Nelson plays Buck Bonham, a country superstar (surprise!) who's about to go out on tour when he loses a key member of the band. No problem. Buck's loyal, loving wife (Dyan Cannon), herself a former superstar and now Buck's business manager, books the young, attractive, and professionally untried daughter of a longtime family friend (Slim Pickens) to temporarily join the tour until a seasoned replacement can be found. It turns out the girl (Amy Irving, young, sexy, and beautiful) can really belt out a tune. And that's not all. Read More
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