Rhinestone (film)
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| Directed by | Bob Clark |
| Produced by | Howard Smith Bill Blake Sandy Gallin Richard Spitalny |
| Written by |
Phil Alden Robinson Sylvester Stallone |
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| Music by | Dolly Parton Larry Weiss |
| Cinematography | Timothy Galfas |
| Edited by | Stan Cole John W. Wheeler Tim Board Gregory M. Gerlich Richard Cadger |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $21,435,321 |
Rhinestone is a 1984 American musical comedy film directed by Bob Clark with a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson; the film stars Stallone and Dolly Parton.
Jake Farris (Dolly Parton), a country singer stuck in a long-term contract performing at a sleazy urban cowboy nightclub in New York City, boasts to the club's manager, Freddie (Ron Leibman), that she can make anybody into a country sensation, insisting that she can turn any normal guy into a country singer in just two weeks. Freddie accepts Jake's bet, putting up the remainder of Jake's contract (if she wins the bet, the contract becomes void; if she loses, another five years will be added). He then ups the ante: if Jake loses, she must also sleep with him. The problem is that Freddie can select the man, and he selects an obnoxious New York cabbie named Nick Martinelli (Sylvester Stallone). Nick not only has no musical talent whatsoever, he claims to hate country music "worse than liver". Realizing she is stuck with Nick, she takes him back to her home in Tennessee to teach him how to walk, talk and behave like a real Country star. While there, he has to put up with Jake's constant nagging and berating him about his behavior, the culture-shock of not knowing anything about the South and Jake's ex-fiancee Barnett Kale who befriends Nick then turns on him when he realizes that he and Jake have developed feelings for one another. It all leads to Nick performing a song at The Rhinestone where the crowd is a crazed group of hecklers and are "out for blood." After Nick's first attempt to sing bombs, he turns to the band and says, "Okay guys, let's pick up the beat" and the band begins playing the song in a more Rock n' Roll version and he wins the crowd over. In the end, Jake gets her contract back and she and Nick begin to sing another song with the implication that they will continue their budding relationship together.
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