Not Fade Away (film)

Not Fade Away is a 2012 drama film and the directorial debut of The Sopranos creator David Chase. It was released on December 21, 2012.

In his late teens, Douglas Damiano John Magaro lives with his father Pat James Gandolfini, who suffers from mycosis fungoides and is physically rough with Douglas with his mother Antoinette Molly Price, who frequently grows hysterical and threatens suicide, and with his sister Evelyn Meg Guzulescu, the films narrator. Douglas sees his friend Eugene Gaunt Jack Huston singing and playing lead guitar for a band in high school and resolves to join the band to earn the affections of a girl named Grace Dietz Bella Heathcote. Douglas gets his chance when the bands current drummer is drafted into Vietnam. In the wake of the British Invasion, Gene is trying to remodel his band after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and he believes Douglas is suited to this style.The bands members fluctuate, with an awkward bass player losing his position. The core of the band is Douglas, Gene, and their friend Wells Brill. Gene is initially the lead singer and guitarist, with Wells on rhythm guitar and Douglas on drums and backup vocals. However, one night at a party Gene accidentally swallows a joint, while trying to smoke it through a toilet paper roll and is unable to sing. Douglas takes over on lead vocalsthe bands members later agree that he is superior to Gene. Gene feels threatened by Douglas and tries to keep the spotlight on himself. During one concert he juggles firecrackers in protest of the Vietnam War, but fumbles and burns his scalp, humiliating himself and the band. Douglas goes to Genes house to formally kick him out of the band, and they end up fighting until Genes father restrains him. ........

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