Nashville Girl

I was expecting just a straight exploitation movie. And while there are moments that feel that way this picture is so much more. The performances are all top notch here with an especially great performance by Glenn Corbett. This movie has a good story about a girl trying to make it in the country music industry. It's sad to think that Nashville is as bad as this movie portrays but the director did spend an extensive time there researching for this movie. There is also a lot of great country music in this movie if you are a fan of the genre. There are some really unpleasant moments and themes but if your down for the ride a great story with great performances. Highly recommend it.

An abused teen escapes her rednecked family and allows country music entertainer Jeb Hubbard to make her swoon when he sings "Hold On Tight" at a fundraiser for the Tennessee Memorial Hospital, his favorite charity. Thoroughly swept from her feet, Jamie allows the singer's cohorts to reinvent her as a rising music star from Wheeling, West Virginia, complete with new name. But could her name eventually surpass Jeb's? Will her past (depicted earlier in the movie) come back to haunt her? "Today You'll Do Better (Than You Did Yesterday)" Jamie sings of her life... but not before paying her dues, and then some. This vastly underrated and underproduced film is well directed, believably acted and is awash in rich, singable tunes befitting a much larger production. This is one of those rare pieces that sticks with you for life (including many of its songs), somehow, through its movie magic -- magic made because it simply works, despite its feeble budget and production woes. Monica Gayle is fantastic and extremely memorable. "Nashville Girl" should have been the dawn of her career, not the twilight. Footnote: Most know of "Nashville Girl" thanks to a Showtime Network executive who was a fan of the picture and insisted on running it ad nauseam during the early nineteen-eighties. I had to vote this movie a 10 on IMDb simply because it stuck with me for all these years... so it actually earned its own "10".

Monica Gale is Jamie, a 16 years old girl who travels to Nashville to try her luck in the country music business. Sadly, Jamie is really beautiful, and every man in the city is trying to get laid with her. She is confused, and sometimes she agrees. She goes to prison for a while (in a sexploitation way). Later, she knows a country music star who supports her, but he falls in love of her, and everything spoils. In one scene, this guy rapes her, meanwhile Jamie sister is listening the attack by phone. Musical, sort of "Coal Miner's Daughter" kind of movie, but with several nudes of thin, delicate, absolutely irresistible Gale. Quentin Tarantino showed it in the Third Annual Quentin Tarantino Festival in Austin, Tx.

This is a good show about a hopeful, musically-inclined girl whose gifted talents are underestimated in the competitive entertainment world. The main actress Monica Gayle plays a country music fan who is attractive, intelligent, although somewhat naive, and intent on becoming a country music star herself. It seems almost to have an underlying theme of irony caused by cruelty toward the character played by Monica Gayle with its amount of hidden sex exploitation, but I respected and loved that she never feels demoralized all through the movie in her role and she stays persistently determined. The movie never gave the impression in my opinion of being stuck with a commonplace, routine kind of plot but instead it inspired viewers by Jamie's adventures. This film contains some fine country music made for the show. The DVD of this film has a clearly defined quality that is easy on the eyes and a smooth flowing story which kept me rooting for the girl known as Jamie Barker and on the edge of my seat all the way to the end of the film. The movie is a worthy to watch show even just to witness actress Monica Gayle's high-spirited acting and beauty in the movie. Truthfully though, I didn't understand the ending. Fans of country music and mature audiences can really stay tuned to this fine performance!!

Well paced film, interesting slice of the 70s with a nice gritty film. Pretty much every man in this film, and there are a good number, assaults the main character for sex (some succeed, some don't). They act with impunity and a certain air of entitlement. Exaggerated for the film, but probably not by much.