At Any Cost

The producers of "Behind the Music" can only fantasize about a story like that of Beyond Gravity, the faux rock group depicted in "At Any Cost", a made-for-cable drama that premiered on VH1 in August 2000. With dreadful things befalling every band member (save the drummer, who is fairly quiet and sits in back), Beyond Gravity is about an incurable disease short of appearing on Lifetime instead of VH1. But then, a bit of excess is appropriate for TV movies (and rock and roll, for that matter).

Besides, Glenn Quinn's turn as the band's overly ambitious manager Ben deserves to be seen. Always an engaging actor, Quinn seems to relish his role as - by one character's estimation - "a vicious bastard". You'll relish it too, and that's reason enough to watch.

The film was okay, quite entertaining. The cast was pretty good, and I'll second what the comment before me mentioned - Glenn Quinn was outstanding and he alone is reason enough to watch this movie. He played the selfish "evil" friend and manager of the band brilliantly!

There are a lot of songs performed by "Beyond Gravity" in this film, but this doesn't really come as a surprise considering the film is a VH1 production. However, if the soft rock/ pop music isn't to someone's liking one might as well flash forward those scenes.

The plot of a band trying to make it to the top in L.A. but having to overcome many obstacles on the way isn't too original, but quite entertaining, with some surprising plot turns here and there.

it`s not a bad movie really, I did not regret watching it, but there is nothing really special about it. The script is OK.the directing is not good.it has some good songs like "Don't Look Back".

if you are a rock`N roll fan and want to know about it new things then this movie will not be your best choice.and if you really want a good movie about Rock and Roll you should watch "Almost Famous". one of the best movies of the year 2000.

This film wasn't one of the greatest I've seen recently. It played like a very long Aerosmith video. I had to fast forward through the numerous musical parts as I began to get bored of the mediocre music (really not my cup of tea). Those problems aside it really wasn't all that bad with some pretty good acting (or brilliant in Glenn Quinn's case) and a small whiff of a plot here and there. I'll admit I only bought this because Mr Quinn was in it, he was excellent as the evil manager. In fact, I found myself shouting; "Ooh! you BASTARD!" at the television several times during the film.

I'd give it 6 out of 10 but only because of Quinn's great portrayal of a big bastard.

Though I really didn't feel anything for Lance's character, and felt his wife could have done much better with anyone else. It could have been a much stronger movie if they had spent more time on character development, perhaps with Lance- I would have liked it better.

However, I have to completely agree with DoyleLuver, when they said "And to quote Glenn Quinn's character Ben: 'I'm the star here in it, that's right I'm the talented one!'" If you watch the movie, just watch him, even when he's in the background... just his facial expressions, all in the eyes, you KNOW for sure what motivates Ben, exactly how he feels about comments, even if it's a quick look behind a character's back. Great acting in a fair film.