Paul Simon ONE TRICK PONY

1980

Genre : Drame/Musical

Duree 100 minutes

Distribue par Warner Bros Inc.

Video and Laser Disc and 2 DVDs

The film was released in US with only limited distribution and Warner decided not to promote it. The movie stayed a few weeks in the theatres. After USA it was Holland the only country that could see the film on theatres that year; in the UK it was not available until 1987. Later years it was aired on TV in US and Europe. Available on video, Warner Home Video #1045, 100 minutes.

Staring :

Paul Simon

Blair Brown

Also Staring

Rip Torn

Joan Hackett

Allen Goorwitz

Mare Winningham

Lou Reed

Produced By Michael Tannen

Co Produced By Michael Hausman

Written By Paul Simon

Directed By Robert M Young

Original Music by Paul Simon

Jonah Levin has been there.He knows what it's like to sit atop the world of pop music. But nothing he ever knew could prepare him for the skid to the bottom.

Set to the sounds of Simon's 10-song score and featuring polished, knowing performances that put you in the know about the sometiumes wacky, always intriguing star-making machinery of the recording industry, ONE TRICK PONY's story centers on Jonah ( Simon ), a waning rock star pushing 40 on the calendar but approaching nowhere on the charts.

Jonah's recording career is as burnt-out as his marriage, but he would sooner lose everything than hang up his guitar strap. It's this obsession that makes Jonah just like the center-ring circus pony that blindly repeats its one-and only - trick over and over again.

ONE - TRICK - PONY says a lot about the music world and what music means to the performer and audience. And it goes deeper.The movie, Simon explains , "is a lot about what happened to my generation. Somewhere in your early 30s you start noticing that the garment of your youth is becoming frayed. What do you do then ? It's a crucial time and only the very few come through it."