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The Night We Called it a Day is a sort-of true story very
loosely based on Sinatra's disastrous tour to Australia in
1974.
During that shocker Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) calls a pushy
and scandal-raking female reporter a two-bit hooker and so
the unions - led by one Robert Hawke (David Field) - call
for strikes affecting the tour until Old Blue Eyes apologises.
This he does not do and so Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton), an Australian
rock promoter who thought he had made it big-time in luring
Sinatra Down Under - starts to go under himself.
With no water, room service, air-conditioning, or way to
fly out, Sinatra and his entourage find life in the most liveable
country in the world distinctly unpleasant.
The Night We Called it a Day is an enjoyable look at 1970s
Australia and the pretensions we had back then. If a reporter
was called the same thing nowadays would 114 unions go on
strike? Like heck they would.
Apart from being a really good look at an Americal icon -
brilliantly played by Dennis Hopper - you get to see Melanie
Griffiths in a solid middle-aged role as Sinatra's wife-to-be
Barbara Marx, Joel Edgerton is excellent as the promoter at
his wits' end and Rose Byrne is his love Audrey.
Watch out for Field's performance as Bob Hawke and just remember
that he became one of this nation's most successful Prime
Ministers. What can you say to that...
The Night We Called it a Day is much better than you would
think and is well worth an evening's viewing.
Conclusion: Movie 75% Extras 65%
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