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  • 2019
  • Trafalgar Releasing
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2019
  • Trafalgar Releasing
  • 1 h 56 m
Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll

Summary The film tells the story of the long troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park erupted in flames during a summer of civil unrest, crippling the town for the next 45 years and reducing it to a state of urban blight. A town literally divided by a set...

Directed By: Tom Jones

  • 2019
  • Trafalgar Releasing
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2019
  • Trafalgar Releasing
  • 1 h 56 m

Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll

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Summary The film tells the story of the long troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park erupted in flames during a summer of civil unrest, crippling the town for the next 45 years and reducing it to a state of urban blight. A town literally divided by a set...

Directed By: Tom Jones

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63
Jul 11, 2019
Its real value is as an oral and visual history of Springsteen, where he met his bandmates and the musical milieu he was fortunate enough to grow up in.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 11, 2019
While the film may feel at times like it was made under the auspices of an Asbury Park tourism board, it’s at least a theoretical tourism board that has a good awareness that a dystopia doesn’t shift back to utopia overnight, or even over a neat 50 years.
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Jul 11, 2019
While Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock 'n' Roll too often feels like a promotional video created by a local tourism organization, it nonetheless provides an engaging history of the town and its once-vibrant music scene.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
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Jul 11, 2019
A starstruck Jones hardly pushes his interviewees on it, but somewhere in his naggingly monotonous morass of talking heads is the tale of how the Boss gained a social conscience.
By Mike McCahill FULL REVIEW

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Release Date May 22, 2019
Duration 1 h 56 m
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