Genre:
Music [nf]
Release Date: 12/18/2001
Run Time: 75 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Cherry Red
In the late '60s and early '70s, seemingly every major
rock festival and a number of top
rock bands had become the subjects of
documentary films, so it was probably just a matter of time before someone decided to take a look at the backstage scene in the wild world of heavy
rock. For
Groupies, filmmakers
Ron Dorfman and
Peter Nevard spent several months on the then-thriving
rock ballroom circuit, filming a few notable bands, but spending most of their time with the women who'd devoted their time to following and "getting to know" their favorite
rock stars (as well as a handful of young men who try, with little success, to share their affections with members of
Ten Years After). Ranging from young unknowns new to the music scene to the royalty of the groupie community (including
Miss Pamela -- aka
Pamela Des Barres, who wrote an entertaining book on her experiences -- and
Cynthia Plaster Caster, who preserved the "instruments" of a number of well-known
rockers in plaster of Paris),
Groupies follows these women and attempts to explain how they came by their decadent lifestyle. If nothing else,
Groupies offers your only opportunity to hear several women onscreen debate the pros and cons of sleeping with
Luther Grosvenor from the band
Spooky Tooth.
Groupies also features onscreen performances from
Joe Cocker,
Ten Years After, and
Terry Reid.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
