A Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey - none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident... Read allA Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey - none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident.A Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey - none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident.
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- TriviaThe concert scenes were filmed in a Las Vegas arena before a Bon Jovi show (New Jersey tour). The stage set up is the actual stage set up Bon Jovi used for their show.
- GoofsIn a flashback, Eddie is on the beach in New Jersey telling a band member what he wants his music to be like. He uses bedsheets as an analogy. In the original movie, he's talking to Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger). In the sequel's flashback, he's talking to Sal Amato (Matthew Laurence).
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Hilton Overstreet: [faces Eddie, sternly] First you destroy your guitar, now your songs. You're gonna be next?
Eddie Wilson: They're lousy songs. They don't even burn good.
Hilton Overstreet: Good thing you know them by heart. Be a shame to lose that many songs by Eddie Wilson.
[Eddie stops destroying his songs and realizes that Hilton knows his true identity]
Hilton Overstreet: I knew the minute I heard you play. The way a man plays - he's born with it; like fingerprints. He can hide under another name. But he can't disguise the way he plays.
Eddie Wilson: Then it's a good thing I'm quitting.
Hilton Overstreet: You're not quitting now, Eddie! You owe it to this band! You brought them this far! Then deserve another chance, just like you had a chance. But they ain't gonna get it without you. You owe it to them, Eddie... and you owe it to me.
- ConnectionsFeatures Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
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Performed by Sylvie Vartan
Eddie and the Cruisers II tries, with good intentions, to tell that story. The story of Eddie Wilson, a boy from the north jersey shore who in the late 1960s became the greatest rock star to ever live, and who was believed to have been dead for the past twenty years, suddenly re-emerges when he finds out that his former record label is about to release the unreleased last album tracks that he allegedly lost his life over. The album that the record label would not release in 1969, because the execs thought the tracks were trash, are now thought to be a work of genius. -- Ironically, not because of the rock star's alleged death, but because 20 years later the album tracks that were recorded in '69 are now thought to be visionary of what rock n roll would eventually evolve into (heralding of Sid Viscious/Bruce Springsteen). Eddie puts together a band of musicians from the small Montreal community he has been "hiding out" in for the past twenty years under an assumed name. And along with his girlfriend, a struggling little rich, french canadian artiste [grin], hits the road on a northern U.S. tour that will culminate in the return of Eddie Wilson and the New Cruisers at what I believe was suppose to be Madison Square Garden (most of the film, with the exception of a few exteriors, was shot in Canada). In the beginning, the girlfriend and one of the new band members are the only two who know that "Joe" is really Eddie Wilson. Along the way Joe/Eddie has a few demons to put to rest and a couple of burnt bridges to mend (an old best friend and band member back in Jersey that he neglected to inform that he really wasn't dead all these years and a record mogul he would like to see dead). --
Eddie and the Cruisers II: a nice date movie to rent at the local Blockbuster or better yet, catch it on cable. 2 1/2 stars.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $536,508
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $536,508
- Aug 20, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $536,508