54

Name: 54
Genre: Drama, History
Released: August 28, 1998
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 33
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Heather Matarazzo, Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe

1998

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critics

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Overwhelming dislike based on 46 Ratings

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Movie Details & Credits

Miramax Films | Release Date: August 28, 1998

Starring: Breckin Meyer, Heather Matarazzo, Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Sela Ward, Sherry Stringfield

Summary: A portrait of the legendary Manhattan disco and its colorful cofounder, Steve Rubell.

Director: Mark Christopher

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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94	#94 Most Discussed Movie of 1998
3	#3 Most Shared Movie of 1998

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Washington Post - Michael O'Sullivan

An entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle

Amusing and holds interest largely thanks to its re-creation of a glitzy, flamboyant era, not to mention its soundtrack of disco songs that sound a lot better today than 20 years ago. Read full review

Austin Chronicle - Marc Savlov

It's a noble effort, but aficionados and the mildly interested are recommended to seek out VH-1's excellent Studio 54 documentary in lieu of this shallow morality play. Read full review

Empire - Caroline Westbrook

It looks attractive, and is enlivened somewhat by the soundtrack's obligatory disco dinosaurs, but those expecting any real insight into the 70s club scene will come away hugely disappointed. Read full review

The A.V. Club - Nathan Rabin

The film's sole redeeming facet is Mike Myers' rich, multilayered performance as Rubell: Simultaneously repulsive and charming, hedonistic and oddly paternal, Myers steals every scene he's in. It's a great performance that deserves to be in a much better film. Read full review

The New Yorker - Bruce Diones

Mike Myers plays Steve Rubell as the druggy epicenter of Studio 54, and his performance gives director Mark Christopher's soapy morality tale its only moments of wanton, hedonistic spirit. Read full review

The New York Times - Stephen Holden

Years from now, if Mark Christopher's timid, meandering film 54 is spoken of at all, it will probably be lumped together with Whit Stillman's ''Last Days of Disco'' as one of two movies released in 1998 to bungle the same opportunity. Read full review

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Tss5078

Nov 14, 2016

Okay, most people wouldn't admit it, but I will. I only watched this movie for the graphic sex and nudity. Based on the trailer, I was expecting a giant orgy, filled with drugs and dance music, but to my surprise, 54 actually turned out to be a docudrama about Club 54, as seen through theOkay, most people wouldn't admit it, but I will. I only watched this movie for the graphic sex and nudity. Based on the trailer, I was expecting a giant orgy, filled with drugs and dance music, but to my surprise, 54 actually turned out to be a docudrama about Club 54, as seen through the eyes of a young waiter/bar tender/dancer. The film features the shady practices of the owner, the drug trade inside, the celebrity guests, and of course the eccentric regulars, in what turns out to be one hell of an entertaining film (...and the sex and nudity don't hurt either). Ryan Phillippe stars in a role that today I could never see him taking, but back in his younger days, he really excelled in. The way he was able to demonstrate how the exposure to a place like that can change a person, was truly remarkable. He literally went from nothing to a face that was known all over the city, simply because he was a waiter at 54. It went to his head and changed the whole dynamic of his life and relationship with his family. For as good as he was though, Mike Myers was the real star of the film, portraying famed owner Steve Rubell. Rubell's life was just one big party and he never slowed down or cared about what he was doing or saying publicly, and we all know how that turned out in the long run. Myers is one of those actors who is out of this world when he's cast in the right role, and terrible when he's not, but much as the case with Austin Powers, this role fit him like a glove. On the surface, 54 is a wild, raunchy film that is going to offend a lot of people, I don't suggest watching it with your grandparents. It does however, tell a very relevant and historically accurate story of the drug and youth culture of the mid-late 1970s in the big cities. 54 is sexy, entertaining, and informative, a mix that you don't often see on the big screen.… Expand

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harvdog03

Oct 30, 2018

So with a cast like this I was hoping for something more that what I saw. It's really just not that good.

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