Can't Stop the Music (film)

Can't Stop the Music ( film)

Can't Stop the Music is a musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker in 1980. It is a pseudo-biography of disco's Village People which bears only a vague resemblance to the actual story of the group's formation.

Alex Briley - Alex the G.I.
David Hodo - David the Construction Worker
Glenn Hughes - Glenn the Leatherman

Randy Jones - Randy the Cowboy
Felipe Rose - Felipe the Indian
Ray Simpson - Ray the Police Officer

Valerie Perrine - Samantha Simpson
Bruce Jenner - Ron White

Steve Guttenberg - Jack Morell
Paul Sand - Steve Waits
Tammy Grimes - Sydney Channing
June Havoc - Helen Morell
Barbara Rush - Norma White
Altovise Davis - Alicia Edwards
Marilyn Sokol - Lulu Brecht
Russell Nype - Richard Montgomery
Jack Weston - Benny Murray

Leigh Taylor-Young - Claudia Walters

Dick Patterson - Mr. Schultz, Record Store Manager
Bobo Lewis - Bread Woman
Paula Trueman - Stick-up Lady
Portia Nelson - Law Office Receptionist
Selma Archard - Mrs. Williams
Murial Slatkin - Mrs. Slatkin
Aaron Colt - TV Reporter (as Aaron Gold)
Vera Brown - Ritchie Family
Jacqui Smith Lee - Ritchie Family
Dodie Draher - Ritchie Family
Greg Zadikov - Singing Vendor
Danone Camden - Stewardess In Record Store
Rasa Alileen - Mime
Gabriel Barre - Mime
Don Blanton - Relief DJ (as Donald Blanton)
Roger LeClaire - Disco Photographer
Cindy Roberts - Jean Harlow Maniquin
Maggie Brendler - Marilyn Monroe Maniquin
Bradley Bliss - Betty Grable Maniquin
Bill Bartman - Wino
Victor Davis - Buster Sirwinski, Auditioning Bodybuilder
William L. Arndt - Construction Commercial Director
Jerry Layne - Ventriloquist
Terry Dunn - James the Flame
Maria Rodsakos - Steve Waits' Secretary
Mike Kulik - Milk Commercial Director
Richard Bruce Friedman - Recording Technician
Bill Anagnos - Moped Rider
Debbie Ash - Dancer (as Deborah Louise Ash)
Semus Brennan - Dancer
Wade Collings - Dancer
Jane Colthorpe - Dancer (as Jane Margaret Colthworphe)
Edyie Fleming - Dancer
Roy Hamlyn Gayle - Dancer
Virginia Francis Hartley - Dancer
Alison Jane Hierlihy - Dancer
Richard King - Dancer
Kim Elizabeth Leeson - Dancer
Perri Lister - Dancer
Sara Miles - Dancer
Gene Montoya - Dancer
Floyd Anthony Pearce - Dancer
Blane Savage - Dancer
Peter Tramm - Dancer
Robert Warners - Dancer
Christine Ann Wickman - Dancer

The film was shot at MGM studios in Hollywood in 1979 with location shooting in San Francisco and New York City. Released well after the disco craze had peaked in the United States, the film was a major critical and commercial failure and only did well in Australia. Since its initial failure, however, Can't Stop the Music has gained something of a cult status as a camp film. Can't Stop the Music was the recipient of the first "Worst Picture" award at the 1980 Golden Raspberry Awards. It was produced by ITC Entertainment.

Golden Raspberry Awards and nominations
1980 Golden Raspberry Awards
Won: Worst Picture
Won: Worst Screenplay
Nominated: Worst Actor (Bruce Jenner)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Valerie Perrine)
Nominated: Worst Supporting Actress (Marilyn Sokol)
Nominated: Worst Director (Nancy Walker)
Nominated: Worst "Original" Song ((You) Can't Stop the Music)

Plot

Jack Morell (Guttenberg) is a composer looking for a band to play his songs. His roommate Samantha Simpson (Perrine), a supermodel who retired at the peak of her popularity, hears some of his songs when he DJs at a local disco and agrees to use her connections in the music industry to get him a record deal. Her "connection" is her ex-boyfriend Steve Waits, president of Marrakech Records (a reference to the Village People's real record label at the time, Casablanca Records). He's more interested in getting back together with her than in Jack's music but agrees to listen to a demo tape.

To make the demo, Samantha recruits Felipe the Indian, Randy the cowboy and David the construction worker from the streets of Greenwich Village. At the dinner party prior to recording, Ron White (Jenner), a lawyer from St. Louis, shows up to deliver a cake her sister sent. On the way to her apartment he's mugged and the police officer, Ray, who shows up to take the report ends up recruited for the session. Disgusted at the supposed decadence of Samantha's lifestyle, Ron leaves in a huff. Jack records the demo.

The next day Samantha runs into Ron at Steve's office. He apologizes and goes back to her place where they spend the night together.

Ron, now very interested in helping out the new group, offers up his law office for auditioning additional members. There Glenn the leatherman and Alex the G.I. join up and the group gets its name, "Village People," from an offhand remark from Ron's visiting mother. Ron's senior partner questions the appropriateness of the firm's representing the group and Ron huffily quits his job.

After grabbing more rehearsal time at the YMCA, the Village People cut their demo (the song "Liberation") for Marrakech. It doesn't go well and Steve offers a very paltry contract. Samantha turns it down and Samantha, Jack and Ron decide to self-finance the group by throwing a pay-party. Samantha initially tries to raise the money for the party by agreeing to return for one final modeling job, a television ad campaign for milk, but insists that the Village People also appear in the commercial. The advertisers reject the commercial but fortunately Ron's mother steps in to invite the group to appear at a charity fundraiser in San Francisco. In a last-ditch attempt to secure a deal with Marrakech, Samantha calls Steve to arrange a flight to San Francisco for the party. Ron is angered by the call and by the amount of skin Samantha showed in the commercial and Samantha breaks it off with him. The flight turns out to be a pretense to get Jack and Steve together (along with Jack's former chorine mother) to hash out a contract.

At the party, Ron realizes that Samantha didn't travel with Steve and he proposes. Ron gets hired back at his old law firm as a junior partner representing the group. Following a set by The Ritchie Family, the Village People make their triumphant debut.

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