Boogie Boy

Starring: Emily Lloyd, Mark Dacascos Director: Craig Hamann Dvd Release: 17th November, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Full Screen, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: Spanish

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Boogie Boy is quite a good film, although not as good as the cast list tries to make out. Emily Lloyds character is weak, Frederic Forrests is unpredicatble & under-developed, & the two leads - Mark Dacascos as Jesse Page, the ex-con who wants to "Go Straight" with Joan Jetts Rock band, & his lover Jaimz Woolvett, an annoying little beardy who wants him to back him up on a drug deal, have glimpses of depth, but really you cant imagine these two being firm friends, let alone as close as is hinted at.

Poor Jesses loyalty is put to the test when he realises Larry isnt going to come with him to Detroit & live like Good, Honest Law-abiding citizens.

What should he do? Is dizzy Hester in need of his charity? Should he wait for Larry & miss his chance of fame & happiness with Jerk & her band?

All is revealed in this neat little drama. Good entertainment if youre not looking for a great deal of emotion.

Emily Lloyd is a British actress born on 29 September 1970 to Roger Lloyd Pack & Sheila Ball in London. Roger Lloyd Pack is familiar as a stage actor & well known as Trigger in the British hit sitcom Only Fools & Horses & Sheila Ball is a stage agent & was a longtime secretary at Harold Pinter s stage agency. Her grandfather Charles Lloyd Pack had appeared in movies like The Mirror crackd, If, Three Worlds of Gulliver & Dracula. Emilys parents divorced when she was two. She & her younger sister Charlotte grew up with their mother. Emilys desire to become an actress was inflamed when she saw Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. director David Leland chose her for the title role in his movie Wish You Were Here. The movie was based loosely on the youth memoirs of British scandal Madam Cynthia Payne. Wish You Were Here was a surprising success at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival & Emily Lloyd was celebrated as new & fresh talent. She received the Evening Standard Film Award & the Award of the National Society of Film Critics in 1987. She was also nominated for a BAFTA award.

Editors Choice: When Saturday Comes, Wish You Were Here, Boogie Boy, View DVDology

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