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That'll Be the Day Reviews

  • 1973
  • 1 hr 31 mins
  • Drama, Music
  • PG
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Portrait of some restless youths, their girlfriends and their music in the late 1950s and early 1960s. David Essex. Mike: Ringo Starr. Mrs. MacLaine: Rosemary Leach. MacLaine: James Booth. Stormy: Billy Fury. Clover: Keith Moon. Jeanette: Rosalind Ayres. Terry: Robert Lindsay. Claude Whatham directed.

A surprisingly adept rock 'n' roll youth film set in the late 1950s starring real-life rocker David Essex (his big hit was "Rock On") as an alienated, working-class youth who goes through his rights of passage. Ex-Beatle Starr is fine as Essex's buddy. Insightful, well written and acted, THAT'LL BE THE DAY is an honest, realistic youth anthem that soon spawned a sequel, STARDUST, which is just as good.