Plot
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
Cast
Robert Lindsay
as Bert Rigby
Robbie Coltrane
as Sid Trample
Cathryn Bradshaw
as Laurel Pennington
Jackie Gayle
as I.I. Perlestein
Bruno Kirby
as Kyle DeForest
Corbin Bernsen
as Jim Shirley
Anne Bancroft
as Meredith Perlestein
Gela Nash
as Mona
Liz Smith
as Mrs. Rigby
Lila Kaye
as Mrs. Pennington
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Reviews
This is a simple movie with a simple premise: A striking coal miner who loves classic Hollywood movies follows his passion to give his family a better life than coal mining. The movie satirizes the cultural clashes all around us and focuses on the particularly strange cult of personality that infuses big motion picture Hollywood. This is a feel-good date movie that teaches you that following y…