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Garage Days

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Australia · 2002
Rated R · 1h 45m
Director Alex Proyas
Starring Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Pia Miranda, Russell Dykstra
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music

Freddy, Tanya, Lucy, and Joe are in an aspiring garage band with all the bravado of true rockers—and none of the talent. Looking for a big break, the young Australians and their clueless manager will do anything to contact a top music producer, if they can manage to keep their hands off each other.

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Wall Street Journal by

What MTV's "The Real World" would be like if its characters admitted they were simply aspiring actors. Garage Days is more clever, more compelling and genuine.

50

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

This wacky Australian comedy about a struggling rock band is tolerable fun, neither as inventive as Bob Rafelson's 60s sitcom "The Monkees" nor as hilariously bad as Ron Howard's made-for-TV cult movie "Cotton Candy" (1978).

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Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis

Like real indie films, garage bands are by definition rough around the edges, but what separates the true believers from the poseurs is their passion, their commitment -- and not just how cool they look on screen or on stage. A mainstream endeavor tricked out as an indie, Garage Days gives us plenty to look at but no reason to care.

75

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

Though the storytelling is a bit lopsided, the slapdash quality is charming overall, and the movie benefits from colorful characters and a couple of hilarious scenes.

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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

There's something uniquely embarrassing about a rock & roll fable that is no more authentic (and no less coy) than an episode of ''The Monkees'' yet insists on presenting itself as the epitome of rebel-yell cool.

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