Jersey Boys
Bechdel test: No
Feminist points: 
Movie: 
Jersey Boys is the story of the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Alternative title: Goodfellas meets That thing you do.
The biopic, we’ve seen it so many times now, I almost brought out my check list, prison – check, marriage – check, divorce – check, suicide – check, fame – check, hard times – check, drugs – actually no.
It’s hard to fathom how a movie with so many important female roles, still feels old-fashioned Hollywood-y, but I think I’ve figured some of it out. According to Tommy Devito (Vincent Piazza, the bad guy), there are two types of women, and they both break your balls. Luckily for me, I managed to count FIVE types of women in the world of Jersey Boys, they are as follow, ‘the mother’, ‘the daughter’, ‘the wife’, ‘the girlfriend’ and ‘the groupie’, just like in real life. Another aspect on why the deep-rooted gender stereotypes are so cemented can be that the conservative director is 84 years old, but hey, that doesn’t explain Million Dollar Baby, Changeling and The Bridges of Madison County. So I’ll just blame the writers of the stage musical. At least the music was great.
Don’t miss: Charming little cameo from director Clint Eastwood when Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) watches an old western starring the director on TV.
Don’t miss 2: Is Renee Marino a younger version of Isabella Sciorra?
-D
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