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American Hot Wax
An accordion-like compression of early rock-and-roll history, sociology, and mythology. This Memory Lane movie pushes a goodly number of nostalgia buttons, and it hopes that the subject matter and the fond feeling for that subject matter are alone sufficient to carry an audience along. It hopes, also, to camouflage the sketchiness of the script by affecting a hectic pseudodocumentary style. With Tim McIntire as the legendary deejay Alan Freed, Laraine Newman as a bobby-soxed Carole King-like songwriter called "Teenage Louise", and cameo appearances by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins as themselves. Directed by Floyd Mutrux. 1978.
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MPAA Rating: PG