Advantages: Laid back movie
Disadvantages: Are the people good looking enough ?

...My copy of the Fabulous Baker Boys came as a DVD free with FilmFirst from the Times. The film stars the Bridges twins as musicians. My copy ran for 108 minutes and is deemed suitable for persons of 15 years and over. The film is produced by Paula Weinstein and Mark Rosenberg. Written and directed by Steve Kloves. Filmed on location in and around Seattle, with a terrific score by Dave Grusin. Copyright 1989 Gladden Entertainment Corporation. CAST Jeff Bridges as Jack Baker Frank Bridges as Beau Bridges Michelle Pfeiffer as Susie Diamond Supporting cast includes: Jennifer Tilley as Monica Ellie Raab as Nina THE STORY The Fabulous Baker Boys' is a tale of music and brotherly love set in Seattle. The Baker boys are Jack and Frank, professional musicians who make a living playing piano together at small clubs throughout... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant soundtrack, and Pfeiffer's performance
Disadvantages: Its a little low key, nothing much happens

...Frank Baker is an optomistic piano player who, with his brother Jack, tours the LA bars playing his own brand of lounge music. But the act is becoming stale, and the ever cynical Jack has a huge chip on his shoulder. When the work starts to dry up, they have to do an overhaul. So they audition for a singer. In comes Susie Diamond, complete with her own attitude problem, a forty a day habit, and a voice that sends pulses racing. Susie's an ex escort looking for her own legitimate job, and wont settle to be a guest vocalist. As the duo become a threesome, the cracks in the brothers relationship starts to become ever more evident. They are forced to look at their relationship with an ongoing insightful analysis from Susie, who proves to more than just a pretty face with a pretty voice. Real life brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges turn... Read review

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Advantages: funny, good cast
Disadvantages: lightweight

...Tom and Kate Baker (Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt) have been married 23 years. They live in the country and their life is dominated by their 12 children. Yes people, 12 kiddies. Thus the title, the maker of Bakers. Geddit?! OK ... moving swiftly on ...! Only 11 of their sprogs live at home. Nora, the eldest (Piper Perabo from Coyote Ugly and Slap Her, She’s French) has hooked up with Hank (Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore’s toyboy, he of Just Married fame). They live together because Tom and Kate don’t like Hank ‘sleeping over’ in their house. Tom is offered a job as the coach to a football team, The Stallions. For him this is a dream come true – but there’s a catch. The whole family has to pack up and leave their school and friends to go and live in a big house in the city. But for Tom it’s a huge pay rise. Cue removal... Read review

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Advantages: Credible, intelligent, good performances
Disadvantages: Downbeat, too ponderous for some tastes

...As I have only seen this in the cinema and on a dvd which arrived free with a Sunday national, this is a review of the FILM only. TECHNICAL DETAILS Year of Release.... 1989 Rating.... 15 (swearing, but not a violent or sexually explicit film) Running Time.... 1 hour 48 minutes Format.... widescreen CAST AND PRINCIPALS ' Jack Baker.... JEFF BRIDGES Susie Diamond.... MICHELLE PFEIFFER Frank Baker.... BEAU BRIDGES Director / Writer.... STEVE KLOVES THE STORY ' Steve Kloves's drama wastes little time in establishing the mood and themes of this presentation. Jack Baker (JEFF BRIDGES) and Frank Baker (BEAU BRIDGES) are two brothers who have made a living... Read review

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Advantages: ..........................
Disadvantages: Its all so terribly 1940's, but not in a good way

...The Baker is very simple British comedy about a hired killer who decides to take a softer touch with one of his hired hits. Offering the man an option to simply disappear rather than be executed, the news about Milo's (Damien Lewis) lenience gets back to his employer and Milo finds himself a target for killing. In order to escape his fate Milo puts New York behind him and heads to the Welsh countryside and a small rural town. After a suspicious arrival the locals start enquiring more into Milo's life who now claims to be a baker. It's not long before the locals led by Eggs (Dyfan Dwyfor) start to doubt his baking experience, and realise that he is (or rather was) a hired killer, in a small town where little arguments get out of control everyone knows somebody they want dead. The Baker starts very promising but very quickly loses its... Read review

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