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Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Name: Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Genre: Drama
Released: 1994-08-26
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Howie Mandel, Patricia Childress

Episode aired Aug 26, 1994
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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Drama

Spunky teenager Susan and her friends start their own rock band as well as open a night club. However, they face opposition from local uptight adults who consider rock'n'roll to be the devil... Read allSpunky teenager Susan and her friends start their own rock band as well as open a night club. However, they face opposition from local uptight adults who consider rock'n'roll to be the devil's music and think that it will have a negative corrupting influence on their children.Spunky teenager Susan and her friends start their own rock band as well as open a night club. However, they face opposition from local uptight adults who consider rock'n'roll to be the devil's music and think that it will have a negative corrupting influence on their children.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Trivia
Julianna Raye who had a bit part portraying Eggroll's Guitar Girl also provided the singing voice for the character of Susan Doyle.

Quotes
E. Joyce Togar: [behind the desk in the library, going through a pile of books, whispers] "Catcher in the Rye." Gone.
[drops book into garbage]
E. Joyce Togar: "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. Gone.
[drops book into garbage]
Margo Doyle: [approaches desk, whispers] Hi, Joyce.
E. Joyce Togar: [turns toward Margo, whispers] Hi, Margo.
[turns back around, whispers]
E. Joyce Togar: Norman Mailer. "The Naked and the Dead." And he's Jewish. Gone.
[drops book into garbage]
Margo Doyle: [whispers] What are you doing?
E. Joyce Togar: [walks toward Margo, whispers] Books are a big influence on our children. It's up to us top channel that influence properly.
[picks up the book Margo wants to check out of the library, gasps]
E. Joyce Togar: Are you sure you want to read Fitzgerald? He was a terrible alcoholic, you know.
Margo Doyle: [whispers] I had no idea.
E. Joyce Togar: [walks back over to the garbage and drops the book in] Gone.

Crazy credits
Susan is seen dancing around her room during the opening credits. This is played backwards during the closing credits.

Connections
Edited from Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994)

Soundtracks
C'mon Everybody
Written by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart
Published by EMI Unart Catalog, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by Iggy Pop
Produced by Iggy Pop
Courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc.

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Featured review

Fun Homage to the 50s

Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994)

*** (out of 4)

Fun, partial remake of the 1956 AIP film has a group of parents trying to get rock and roll music banned and especially after a TV personality (Howie Mandel) shows a group of black women singing. Teenagers Susan (Renee Zellweger) and Cookie (Patricia Childress) try to teach the small town that there's nothing wrong with rock or people of a different race. To date, of all the films I've watched from Showtime's Rebels Highway series, this one here does the best job at capturing the spirit and feel of those 1950's films that these were remakes of. Director Allan Arkush does an extremely good job at building up the atmosphere that was front and center to so many of those AIP rock 'n roll films and that's the fact that parents were simply wrong that the music was going to make their kids act crazy. This one here certainly seems to have been influenced by those old rock and roll movies but there's also a touch of HAIRSPRAY going on here but I think the mix made for a pretty entertaining time. On a visual level I thought the producers did a very good job at making the setting look like the 1950s and this is especially true with their music selections as well as the television show where kids are shown dancing and having a good time. Another major plus are the fun performances from the entire cast and this includes the pre-fame Zellweger who is charming in her part. Mandel is also extremely good in his part of the TV host and it appears he's having a blast. The supporting cast features nice work from all but it was great fun seeing Dick Miller, P.J. Soles and Stephen Furst of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE fame. The racial situations are never looked at in a serious manor but I think the film as a whole is pretty entertaining. It's certainly not ground-breaking but for a "B" movie it's entertaining and that's what is important.