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- 1982
- PG
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- PG
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Hal Ashby's film chronicles The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
- 1982
- PG
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- PG
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Let's Spend the Night Together
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Summary Hal Ashby's film chronicles The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Where to Watch
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
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13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
51
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The classiest of concert movies, even if that sounds as if it ought to be a contradiction in terms. As photographed by Gerald Feil and Caleb Deschanel (of ''The Black Stallion''), it looks glorious, particularly in the opening sequences at an outdoor arena.
It all comes down to the difference between a "concert film" and a documentary. Let’s Spend The Night Together is essentially a concert film recording an "ideal" Rolling Stones concert, put together out of footage shot at several outdoor and indoor Stones concerts. If that's what you want, enjoy this movie. I wanted more.
Although one may mourn the lost opportunity to say something about the Stones other than that they are twenty years older than they were twenty years ago (cue 'Time Is on My Side'), a Stones concert is still worthwhile entertainment.
A spotty documentary of the Rolling Stones 1981 concert tour. [11 Feb 1983, p.23]
The great Hal Ashby (Harold And Maude, Being There) directs, but doesn’t make his presence felt too often. In the midst of the personal and professional problems that plagued him after his '70s heyday, Ashby mostly finds a few angles, hopes for the best, then edits it together with all the artfulness of a televised sports broadcast.
Let's Spend the Night Together is a disappointing souvenir, at best a sweet substitute for the many who couldn't catch the Stones live. The Stones' status has always excused their shortcomings, so this film won't shake the believers. But it won't convince the skeptics, either. [12 Feb 1983, p.C1]
There is one egregious misstep: the photographs of mutilated Vietnamese
bodies which appear on the screen during the song, Time Is On My Side,
which is grotesque and fundamentally dishonest. No major band has been
less interested in politics than The Rolling Stones, and that's what makes
Let's Spend The Night Together so infuriating. It purports to be about
something momentous, but has absolutely nothing to say. In that, at least,
Ashby's film captures perfectly the spirit of the Stones' 1981 tour. [11 March 1993]
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Production Company
Northstar Media,
Raindrop,
Weintraub Entertainment Group
Release Date Oct 15, 1982
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Let's Spend the Night Together . . . live it!
Website
http://www.stones-movie.jp/
Awards
Grammy Awards
• 1 Nomination
