Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

This little TV movie about The Partridge Family,a hard to believe irony if any,is ruined by the showy selfishness of Danny Bondaduce.Look at the end Bondaduce claims in his cornball narration"well that's my story",and that's the problem with this movie.It IS his story being told.It isn't about Shirley Jones,or Susan Dey,or the other child actos on the show.It was all about Bondaduce and the people that were the center of his life,the selfish David Cassidy,Bondaduce's surrogate father David Madden and his dysfuntional family. Now it is too bad that his father hated him and the rest of his family didn't amount to very much(He portrayed them that way ,that's not my opinion).But we wanted to see the Partridge Family aside from Bondaduce and Cassidy and we didn't see that.The other actors on the show,even Shirley Jones,didn't get their stories told from what would have been an balanced film ,except this movie's screenplay is written by and for Bondaduce. The other child actors have been forgotten,Susan Dey doesn't even talk about the show anymore,and the show's makers seemed to wanted to keep their distance from it.Therefore a real presentation about the makings of the Partridge Family was not told here.You got Danny Bondaduce's Partridge Family life story instead.His post Partridge Family life story is one better left unsaid and unseen but the real Partidge Family story will have to made and seen in the future.

I don't know a lot about the partridge family, I've only seen maybe two episodes from beginning to end, but did this stuff behind the scenes really happen. Such as, when David just kidnaps Danny and drives away in the bus, the scene when they were in the bunny costumes, how they took care of Danny for different weekends or how they would refer to each as Keith or Laurie, Just to name a few. But the acting was pretty bad and i didn't like how the jumped around a lot. The only thing I liked about the movie was the Brady Bunch scene. I would like to see what happened to the actors after the show. I am looking forward to the "new" family on VH1. But I wouldn't see it again though. It was pretty bad.

Call me crazy, but I like this movie. It has some very light hearted bits and some very funny scenes as through the eyes of Danny Bonaduce's memories of getting on the show, working on it,getting kidnapped by Keith...whoops,I mean,David Cassidy, a tough family experience as a childhood TV star and the disappointment of the series's end. I was never a big fan of the series, but I did like some of the songs and now thanks to the movie I know some behind the scenes trivia about the music. All of the actors are dead-on lookalikes good enough to bring this series back to TV, especially the lovely Kathy Wagner who plays Susan Dey. Someone please thank Danny for peeking in on Susan for the peeping-tom scene. As a kid, Danny is portrayed like some sort of kid prodigy, which he probably was, and as well sets up the preminitions of what was set to happen to him in the later years of his life.Hey, I think I love,,,,,,,this movie !

An excellent depiction of the actors who played the roles in '70s sitcom "The Partridge Family." It mostly focused on Danny Bonaduce and his family, but also David Cassidy and how he as a young person dealt with fame. I would strongly recommend you watch it if you get the chance.

Can't recall too many movies along the lines of "true story behind the xxxx group". Val Kilmer played Morrison in "The Doors", and there was the supposed true story of the Beach Boys. That was MUCH better than this. And I can't recall any more.

Having said that, I'm wondering if maybe there wasn't much to tell? I mean Danny Bonaduce WAS just a kid during the four years of the Partridge Family, maybe he simply aired his childhood memories, and they were... well... childish?

I would have liked to have seen more of what happened to the family AFTER the show was canned. I believe that it was quite sordid, maybe that would have added some interest to the story?