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    • Facts

    Year:
    		 1999
    Character Name:
    		 Jonesy
    Director:
    		 Alison Anders and Kurt Voss

  • This film also stars John Taylor of Duran Duran fame who were of course pop rivals with Spandau Ballet in the 1980s.
  • Martin received this role after the original actor pulled out and John Taylor suggested Martin for the role.
  • It was during the filming of this movie that Martin got a call from his agent to audition for EastEnders for the part of Steve Owen.

    Reviews

  • "An indy ensemble piece, Sugar Town is quick, snide, funny and deeply satisfying.... Anyone who has had even the slightest contact with the music business or West Coast lunacy in general should not miss this film. All others: Ditto." - Liz Braun (Toronto Sun, January 2000)
  • "The actors in this Altmanish weaving of stories play their roles with obvious zeal. And many of them happen to be very familiar with this comic terrain. A lot of ''Sugar Town'' centers on a group of aging rock stars who look like the real thing. (And they should: the group is played most amusingly by John Taylor of Duran Duran, Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet and Michael Des Barres, whose ex-wife Pamela wrote the book on California groupiedom.)" - Janet Maslin (New York Times)
  • "The movie is not profound or tightly plotted or a "statement," nor should it be. It captures day-to-day drifting in a city without seasons, where most business meetings are so circular and unfocused it's hard to notice when they stop resulting in deals and simply exist for their own sake. You can make enough money in a brief season of fame that if you are halfway prudent with it, you can live forever like this, making plans and reminding people who you are, or were, or will be." - Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • "A serio-comic mosaic about L.A.'s rock 'n' roll subculture, "Sugar Town" is Robert Altman lite, a jokey, insubstantial pudding with a sprinkling of tasty ingredients scattered through it. Broad and obvious in its humor and intent, pic is most amusing as a look at rock musicians suffering through midlife crises." (Variety.com)

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    Quotes

  • "These were people we knew and wanted to work with again. The Yilm’s fictional" band members came together that way: Michael Des Barres was a friend of Kurt’s and they had worked together on the film "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction"; John Taylor has worked with me, Yas music composer on Anders’ film "Mi Vida Loca"; Martin Kemp we had met years ago." Alison Anders (Press Kit)
  • "Rock-and-roll is not democratic. The hierarchy of a band is fascinating; you have one guy who’s the visionary, and the other guys who loathe and resent him, but basically owe their houses to his vision. The truth is, most bands stay together because of mortgages. It’s all there in the script: the competition, the envy, and the love." Alison Anders (Press Kit)
  • "Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran were huge rivals in the 1980s, particularly in England. And now, here we are working together in a movie in America!" - Martin Kemp on working with Duran Duran member John Taylor (Press Kit)

    Links

  • IMDb - Sugar Town cast and crew.
  • Original Martin Kemp Homepage - Summary and review.

    Images

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    Press Stills/Posters