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1998 Directed by Mark Christopher

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Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar – and a front-row seat at the most legendary party on the planet.

Ryan Phillippe Salma Hayek Pinault Neve Campbell Mike Myers Sela Ward Breckin Meyer Sherry Stringfield Ellen Albertini Dow Cameron Mathison Noam Jenkins Jay Goede Patrick Taylor Heather Matarazzo Skipp Sudduth Aemilia Robinson Daniel Lapaine Erika Alexander Thelma Houston Mary Griffin Donald Carrier Domenick Lombardozzi Mark Ruffalo Robert Bauer Bruno Miguel Jason Andrews Laura Catalano Kohl Sudduth Lorri Bagley Lauren Hutton Show All… James Binkley Arthur J. Nascarella John Hines Louis Negin Lena Vajakas Barbara Radecki Sean Sullivan Ron Jeremy Vieslav Krystyan Niki Holt David Blacker Bruce MacVittie Emmanuel Mark Kabriel Lilly Michael York Morgan Freeman Lina Giornofelice Elio Fiorucci Drake Thorens Justin Tensen Jason Fruitman Andy Grote Jordan Paige Georgina Kess Mario Bosco Coati Mundi Victor Sutherland Janine Longley Michael T. Henderson Chris Ingram Sheryl Crow Georgina Grenville Cindy Crawford Sophie Rousseau Victor Browne Heidi Klum Donald Trump Cecilie Thomsen Ling Frederique van der Wal Veronica Webb Michel van der Wal Art Garfunkel Peter Bogdanovich Beverly Johnson John Johnson Bruce Jay Friedman Andrea Boccaletti Lorna Luft Valerie Perrine Ultra Naté Amber Jocelyn Enriquez Michael Pitt Brooke Lewis Bellas Heath Jacob Baldwin Justin Bartha Sheila Boyd Tony Devon George Nickolas K. Alice Liu Peter Loung Mary McCormack George F. Miller Ilana Miller Anne Mueller Steve Nuke Kris Paredes Anthony Reynolds Michelle Risi Nick Stellate

Director Director

Mark Christopher

Producers Producers

Richard N. Gladstein Ira Deutchman Dolly Hall

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Bobby Cohen Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Don Carmody

Writer Writer

Casting casting.

Suzanne Crowley Billy Hopkins Kerry Barden

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

Alexander Gruszynski

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Peter Rosenfeld Andris Matiss Sean Jensen

Production Design Production Design

Kevin Thompson

Art Direction Art Direction

Tamara Deverell

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Karin Wiesel

Composer Composer

Marco Beltrami

Sound Sound

Kyrsten Mate Tom Myers Tony Sereno Gary Rizzo Tom Bellfort Lora Hirschberg Michael Semanick Robert Shoup David C. Hughes E. Larry Oatfield Al Nelson

Costume Design Costume Design

Ellen Lutter

Makeup Makeup

Patricia Green

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Judi Cooper-Sealy

Dollface Redeemable Features FilmColony Miramax

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Review by MJsays ★★★½ 4

Lots of flares, glitter and cocaine...what’s not to like?! Oh, and there’s even some STD’s to spice things up. Now if that’s not a party of a lifetime I don’t know what is.

Review by kmeaston ★★½ 2

The Director's Cut did a solid by restoring fuckboi Ryan Phillippe's bisexuality, but this is still whiter and straighter than any movie about disco can afford to be.

Review by Paul (Douglas Reese) ★★★★★

(Director's Cut)

I love this film because its nonchalant about every bit of its subject matter. I like it because it follows a formula of Cabaret in that it’s the end of an era. (It was obviously inspired by Boogie Nights , this much cannot be denied.)

I also love how it takes notes from the classic blueprint of “working class boy becomes personal savior in hedonism” that we’ve seen since Saturday Night Fever first blew up.

I love it because it has all of these wrapped so tightly in a film that doesn’t go overboard or sentimental. It’s not about the plot, but the characters, and the characters are all equally questionable and sympathetic.

The performances are astounding, the atmosphere…

Review by nick ★★★½ 3

i know i didn’t watch this for neve campbell for her to only show up for less than 10 minutes.......at least i got some gay, glittery, drug-addicted bartenders instead <3

Review by {Todd} ★★ 1

"Welcome to my party, handsome." -Steve Rubell,

I don't really like dance clubs.

Credit where it's due Mike Myers is absolutely outstanding in this role and I normally find him so annoying. That performance however is the only highlight of a film that has very little to say. It's just a basic rise and fall nostalgia tale about an experience that very few people had. It's watchable but just kind of pointless. The filmmakers do nothing to really place 54 in any important historical context or say anything special so the film is mostly an account of annoying people being petty and pathetic.

Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★½ 1

54 Director’s Cut. 1998. Directed by Mark Christopher.

Dancing, disco music, corruption, lgbtq lifestyles, celebrities, and corruption. All of the aforementioned items were included in this almost biographic tale of Studio 54. I will admit this was a self indulgent, decadent time but it was a fucking blast to experience a bit of this life as I was a child. I am not a Weinstein fan but, this Miramax production was a great rendering of the Studio 54 story. Salma Hayek, Ryan Phillippe, Neve Campbell, and Mike Myers you have my love for portraying these characters. The editing could have been better but the soundtrack made me want to boogie, and  the direction was tight.

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Review by lanie ★★★

needs more neve cambell as all things do

Review by harry ★★½

i got at least 6 computer viruses trying to watch this.

Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★½ 3

Razzie Awards 1999 Nominee - Worst Actor Ryan Phillippe Nominee - Worst Supporting Actress Ellen Albertini Dow

"Merry Christmas, you cunts."

Yeah...old Dottie wasn't quite doing it for me and she had a lot of screen time in Mark Christopher's DC. Dow earned the supporting Razzie nod that Mike Myers seemed to be gunning for. Or maybe he was serious about Oscar; there's a fine line sometimes. This cut uses some murky alternate takes and shots assembled from the only surviving VHS footage available for reconstruction. Quite rough around the edges, but compulsively watchable. From what I recall, this one is a lot more explicitly frank with the non-heterosexual activity.

Hadn't seen this since theatrical, but now I'm just itching…

Review by UltimateMovieRankings ★★

Based on the true story of the New York City club, Studio 54, in the late 1970s early 1980s. Ryan Phillippe has the biggest role in the movie as he plays a young man that works his way into the 54 world. The club is filled with Sex, drugs and disco?...yep disco!

Probably the most interesting character is Mike Myers as Steve Rubell the owner and mastermind behind the success of the club. Sadly though....little time is given to him....as he hovers on the outside of most of the action. I give Myers credit for taking on such a serious role....and for doing that role so well. The rest of the cast is not given much to do...Neve Campbell, Sela…

Review by Nick Naney ★

Boogie Nights for guys who’ve had their dick stuck in a pool filter

Review by Hunter ᴴᴰ ★★★½

It’s hard being beautiful pretty much sums up 54 . Or maybe it's the part where a coat checker tells Ron Jeremy “Do you know how many black leather jackets with poppers and a cock ring in the left pocket we got back here?” 

It's so cliche to say “I don't believe in guilty pleasures,” and I actually do try to live by that. But  54 makes me feel very guilty. Plus the added guilt of wishing I was this cool or this hot. 

I wanted more of the uniqueness and wildness of Studio 54. The movie  54 doesn't quite capture that feeling I would imagine from the real-life studio but how the hell would I know. Most likely in Mark Christopher’s original script…

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Ellen Albertini Dow

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• "54 is an entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s, tempered by a healthy dose of jaundice"  Michael O'Sullivan : The Washington Post
• "Decadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting as it does in this listless film." Kenneth Turan : Los Angeles Times
• "The strongest element of '54' is its star Ryan Phillippe (...) The movie might have worked had it decided which story it wanted to tell"  Stephen Holden : The New York Times
• "Amusing and holds interest largely thanks to its re-creation of a glitzy, flamboyant era, not to mention its soundtrack of disco songs that sound a lot better today than 20 years ago"  Mick LaSalle : San Francisco Chronicle
• "Too often, the film is more like a soundtrack with visuals than a well constructed, fully developed motion picture." James Berardinelli : ReelViews
• "It's a noble effort, but aficionados and the mildly interested are recommended to seek out VH-1's excellent Studio 54 documentary in lieu of this shallow morality play."  Marc Savlov : Austin Chronicle
• "Director Mark Christopher gives the picture a brisk pace and a colorful, party-like mood that makes the experience painless and sporadically even enjoyable" Emanuel Levy : Variety
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Review: ’54: The Director’s Cut’ With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Breckin Meyer, And Neve Campbell

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Nostalgia in pop culture seems to operate on a twenty-year delay These days, there are a lot of callbacks to ’90s movies, TV shows, video games, and more. Conversely, the 90s were all about the ’70s, and during the latter part of the decade, there was a resurgence of movies that took place in the late ’70s, complete with earworm disco tunes and bell-bottoms. The king of these films is of course Paul Thomas Anderson ’s “ Boogie Nights .”  Whit Stillman ’s “ The Last Days of Disco ” was an even-tempered approach to relationships during, well, the disco days. Spike Lee combined a gritty thriller with an ensemble drama in the 1977-set “ Summer of Sam .”  Adam Rifkin pitted hard rockers and disco kids against each other in the underrated “ Detroit Rock City ”.

Among these was 1998 oddity “ 54 ,” about a young and naïve stud’s fish out of water experiences as an employee of the infamous Studio 54 nightclub during, you guessed it, the late ’70s. I saw the original cut of “54” when it showed up on cable not long after its financially and critically disappointing theatrical run. That cut wasn’t much more than a fluffy celebration of late ’70s excess and an exploitation of the audience’s nostalgia for the era. It was full of overlong montages of eccentric and hedonistic behavior in Studio 54, wrapped around a bargain basement “ Saturday Night Fever ” melodrama. Yet there were some moments in it that hinted at characters and themes with more depth. Either “54” missed its opportunity at saying something substantial about the narcissistic culture of the era, or there was a much better cut hiding in there somewhere. As the director’s cut of “54” comes out with an unfashionable 17-year delay, the answer turns out to be a bit of both.

READ MORE: Berlin Film Festival Adds Director’s Cut Of ’54’

After the 1998 test audiences balked at the film’s gay content, “54” distributor Miramax forced writer/director Mark Christopher to cut 45 minutes and add 25 minutes from reshoots. Those, among other changes, downplayed the bisexuality of the film’s main character Shane O’Shea ( Ryan Phillippe ).

Culled together from various sources, some of which look like footage out of a VHS tape that was left out in the sun too long, Christopher’s cut of “54” is still far from great, but it’s a considerable step in the right direction. What we get is a film that, while still understanding the characters’ inherent need to party hardy, also tenderly touches on the spiritual vapidity of such a shallow life. Right off the bat, Christopher comments on the extreme and sudden highs and lows of the Studio 54 lifestyle with a new credits sequence that smash cuts to eerie silences in between anarchic shots of disco mayhem.

We meet our hunky protagonist Shane pretty much the same way we do in the theatrical cut. He’s a working class Jersey boy who dreams about making it to Studio 54 and meeting Julie Black ( Neve Campbell ), a starlet he has a crush on. His luck turns one night after 54’s kooky owner Steve Rubell ( Mike Myers ) is smitten with Shane’s abs and lets him in the club. Shane eventually gets a job as a busboy and lives the dream of Studio 54, snorting, swallowing, and screwing anything he can get his hands on. From this point on, the striking narrative differences between the theatrical cut and the director’s cut become more and more apparent.

First of all, yes, Shane sleeps with a slew of men as well as women in the new cut, which contains a clever montage where his sex partners switch in his bed within the same shot. However, apart from this cut’s vindication upon the reinsertion of the gay content, what really works is the overall shift of focus from Shane’s relationship with Julie to a love triangle between his best friends, the married Studio 54 employees Anita ( Salma Hayek ) and Greg ( Breckin Meyer ).

One of the biggest problems with the original cut was that once Shane achieved his dreams of partying and hooking up with the crème de la crème of New York high society after the first act, it got stuck on the same thematic gear until the end. The protagonist achieved his goal way before the movie was over, and the studio’s cut was too afraid of inserting a substantial conflict in fear of not delivering enough shiny and fun stuff they thought the audience wanted.

The director’s cut largely fixes this issue by relegating Neve Campbell’s role into a glorified cameo while having Shane look for something more meaningful in his life as he lives vicariously through Anita and Greg. His attempts at a sexual connection with either of them feels less like genuine sexual desire, and more like a desperate craving for something real. Since he’s been getting attention in Studio 54 only via his sexuality, he thinks he doesn’t have anything more substantial to give to people he considers to be his only family.

The director’s cut’s focus on a darker and more dramatic approach makes the performances stand out a lot better. Phillippe successfully presents a more tragic angle on his character, while Hayek and Meyer turn in more three-dimensional performances. It’s now fashionable for comedians to try their hands at dark and disturbing dramatic parts ( Steve Carell in “ Foxcatcher ” comes to mind), but Mike Myers taking on the role of the manipulative and draconian club owner was a bold move in 1998. His take on Steve Rubell is a man who’s the ruler of a hedonistic kingdom and yet is perpetually disinterested in the madness that surrounds him. My favorite scene in both cuts is a sequence where Rubell struggles to ask Greg if he can give him a blowjob, simply because of Myers’ nonchalant delivery in a kind of scene that usually milks the heights of melodrama.

Any way you splice it, “54” is still the runt of the litter as far as late ’90s movies about the late ’70s are concerned. The director’s cut still has a pacing that lags during the second act, and now that the film’s about the love triangle, the scenes with Julie don’t really add anything to the overall story. That being said, it deserves a second chance in its new life. [B-]

“54: The Director’s Cut” is now available on Digital HD via Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Miramax.

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In 1970s New York City, Studio 54 is the epicenter of sex, drugs and disco music. It's there that up-and-comer Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe) endeavors to make his big-city dreams come true. After catching the eye of the nightclub's owner, Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), Shane quickly rises from busboy to bartender. While coat-check girl Anita (Salma Hayek) tries to get her big break as a singer, Shane finds himself smitten with soap-opera starlet Julie Black (Neve Campbell).

Genre: Drama

Original Language: English

Director: Mark Christopher

Producer: Dolly Hall , Richard N. Gladstein , Ira Deutchman

Writer: Mark Christopher

Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 1998  original

Release Date (Streaming): Apr 21, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $16.6M

Runtime: 1h 32m

Distributor: Miramax Films

Production Co: Miramax Films, Redeemable Features

Sound Mix: Surround, DTS, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Flat (1.85:1)

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Ryan Phillippe

Shane O'Shea

Salma Hayek

Anita Randazzo

Neve Campbell

Julie Black

Steve Rubell

Billie Auster

Breckin Meyer

Greg Randazzo

Sherry Stringfield

Ellen Albertini Dow

Disco Dottie

Heather Matarazzo

Grace O'Shea

Skip Sudduth

Harlan O'Shea

Aemilia Robinson

Kelly O'Shea

Lauren Hutton

Liz Vangelder

Michael York

Daniel Lapaine

Marc the Doorman

Mark Christopher

Don Carmody

Executive Producer

Bobby Cohen

Bob Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein

Richard N. Gladstein

Ira Deutchman

Marco Beltrami

Original Music

Alexander Gruszynski

Cinematographer

Film Editing

Kerry Barden

Billy Hopkins

Suzanne Smith

Kevin Thompson

Production Design

Tamara Deverell

Art Director

Karin Wiesel

Set Decoration

Ellen Lutter

Costume Design

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Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar - and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet.

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54 - Family

The Studio 54 crew takes Shane into its exclusive (and often outrageous) arms. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Anita Randazzo (Salma Hayek)

As Greg captures a new market as a dealer at the club, Shane finds out he's in need of some drugs himselffor an STD. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), Julie Black (Neve Campbell)

54 - Blue Christmas

At Christmas time, Shane has trouble with his family at work and his real family at home. In this scene: Anita Randazzo (Salma Hayek), Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe)

54 - Bridge and Tunnel

Jersey boy Shane is plucked from the crowd and allowed to enter the exclusive and illusive nightclub, Studio 54. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), Anita Randazzo (Salma Hayek)

54 - Do They Look Like You?

When Shane wants to get a few of his friends on the list at 54, Steve has only one question for him: Do they look like you? In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers)

54 - Proposal

In exchange for Greg's dream job as a bartender at 54, a wasted Steve makes an indecent proposal. In this scene: Steve Rubell (Mike Myers)

54 - Happy New Year

It's New Years Eve at 54, and as is to be expected, the booze, drugs, and love are flowing. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Julie Black (Neve Campbell), Anita Randazzo (Salma Hayek), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers)

54 - What It's All About

Shane gets closer to his dream girl, Julie, during a game of bowling, but her first priority isn't love, it's her career. In this scene: Julie Black (Neve Campbell), Shane O' Shea (Ryan Phillippe)

54 - Bus Boy

Brought on as a bus boy at Studio 54, Shane must figure out how to balance his life at home in Jersey with his work in the city. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), Julie Black (Neve Campbell)

54 - Official Trailer (HD)

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar - and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet. Starring, in alphabetical order: Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Sela Ward

54 - Raising My Profile

Shane works his way up to bartender at work and starts to climb the New York social ladder. In this scene: Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe), Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), Anita Randazzo (Salma Hayek), Billie Auster (Sela Ward)

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Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54.

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• Release Date: 28 August 1998 (US) (more)

Set in the late 1970s; the story follows several characters who all come to Studio 54, the world-famous New York City discotheque, including the bartender Shane and the aspiring singer Anita.

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• Ryan Phillippe
• Salma Hayek
• Neve Campbell
• Breckin Meyer

• Sherry Stringfield

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• Noam Jenkins
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Set in the late 1970s; the story follows several characters who all come to Studio 54, the world-famous New York City discotheque, including the bartender Shane and the aspiring ...Read more singer Anita.

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Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar – and a front-row seat at the most legendary party on the planet.

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Recalling the rise and fall of New York's drug-and-sex-filled disco scene of the late '70s, from the perspective of a 19-year-old hustler.

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The Friends family ‘s outpouring of tributes for Matthew Perry continued as Jennifer Aniston remembered her late friend and cast mate in a moving social media post.

“Oh boy this one has cut deep… Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply,” Aniston wrote. “He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be.”

In the photo, a screenshot of a text conversation with Perry showed the actor sending Aniston an old black and white photo of themselves together with the message: “Making you laugh just made my day.”

Aniston concluded her tribute with a message to Perry directly. “Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain,” she shared. “I talk to you every day… sometimes I can almost hear you saying ‘could you BE any crazier?’ Rest little brother. You always made my day…”

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