I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a 1978 comedy film directed and cowritten by Robert Zemeckis, which takes its name from the 1963 song I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles. It was produced and cowritten by Bob Gale.

Over a year later, in December 1979, four of the films starsBobby DiCicco, Wendie Jo Sperber, Nancy Allen and Eddie Deezenappeared in the Spielbergdirected comedy film 1941, which was also written by Gale and Zemeckis. Susan Kendall Newman, who played Janis Goldman, is Paul Newmans daughter.Ed Sullivan prepares the ushers for the Beatles performance on his show. In Maplewood, New Jersey, Rosie and Pam visit the record shop. Janis, the owners daughter hates the Beatles. Grace wants to rent a limo, so they can pull up to the Beatles hotel, and get exclusive photos of the band. The girls recruit shy Larry DuBois, the local undertakers son as he has access to limos. They leave for New York City and on the way pick up Tony a brash, streetwise guy. After driving all night, they arrive in New York early on the morning of February 9, 1964. When they pull up at the hotel, Grace, Rosie and Pam sneak in, while Larry pulls the limo with Tony and Janis in it to the side of the building. Once inside, Grace and Rosie sneak into a service elevator, while Pam is left in the basement in a storage closet. Pam who was they only one not really interested in seeing the Beatles, as she is engaged sees them leave the hotel as they go to rehearse. Meanwhile, Grace gets off on the 11th floor. Rosie rides up to the 12th, where the Beatles room is located. She is caught, escapes and meets Richard Klaus, a fellow Beatles fan who is hiding out in a room in the hotel. Pam hides in a food cart and is taken to the Beatles room, where she handles all their stuff and hides under Johns bed. Grace is caught too, so she goes to the CBS studio, where a guard tells her that for 50 dollars he will let her in backstage while the show is on. Richard and Rosie are tossed from the hotel. Janis meet Peter, a kid whose dad will give him three tickets to The Ed Sullivan Show if he will get his Beatles style hair cut into a crew cut. She recruits Tony to steal the dads wallet and get the tickets. Larry asks Grace

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