Movies with Rockin' Soundtracks...
by dini0519 | created - 11 Apr 2014 | updated - 13 Apr 2014 | PublicMusic I like, and many other people may too...
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1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus
Votes: 115,825 | Gross: $27.09M
Steve Miller Band, Led Zeppelin, Jackson Brown, The Cars-I love it.
2. The Big Chill (1983)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt
Votes: 41,471 | Gross: $56.20M
Opens with I Heard it Through the Grapevine, and continues with A Whiter Shade of Pale, The Four Tops, and ...
3. Observe and Report (2009)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.
Director: Jody Hill | Stars: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña
Votes: 65,298 | Gross: $23.99M
The Band, Queen, Little River Band, The Yardbirds, Patto, The Action,- what a good variety.
4. Orange County (2002)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.
Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison
Votes: 51,948 | Gross: $41.03M
Besides the well known "California" by Phantom Planet, there's "Butterfly" by Crazytown, "Story of my Life", by Social Distortion, and more.
5. Tommy Boy (1995)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy
After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy, Bo Derek
Votes: 97,344 | Gross: $32.70M
Come on Eileen, Superstar, It's the End of the World-good road trip music...
6. Tommy (1975)
PG | 111 min | Drama, Musical
A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John
Votes: 22,641 | Gross: $34.25M
All The Who music was fun-Pinball Wizard, See Me, Feel Me, etc.
7. Extract (2009)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis
Votes: 50,365 | Gross: $10.81M
Not exactly rockin' music, but good country-Johnny Paycheck, Waylon Jennings, and The Texas Tornados.
8. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 790,805 | Gross: $46.36M
Paint it Black is a favorite and These Boots are Made for Walking is well known in this movie as well as Wooly Bully.
9. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Director: John Badham | Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Votes: 87,553 | Gross: $94.21M
Had to add at least one disco themed movie-okay, so it's not rock, and that would be Saturday Night Fever with the famous Bee Gees Stayin' Alive and Night Fever, as well as Disco Inferno, and a few others.
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