The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 American romantic comedydrama musical film written and directed by Steve Kloves, and starring real life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge jazz pianists in Seattle. In desperation, they take on a female singer, Michelle Pfeiffer, who revitalizes their careers, causing the brothers to reexamine their relationship with each other and with their music.

The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jack Jeff Bridges and Frank Beau Bridges, are brothers living in Seattle, making a living playing in lounges and music bars, their gimmick being that they play intricate jazz and popflavored duets on matching grand pianos. Frank handles the business aspect while Jack, single, attractive, and more talented as a player, feels disillusioned and bored with the often hackneyed material they play. He is, nonetheless, able to live a comfortable and responsibilityfree existence because of Franks management, sleeping where and with whom he pleases. Frank has a wife and family he adores, but Jack has no personal connections in his private life, other than Eddie, his soulful but aging Black Labrador, and Nina, the lonely child of a single mom living in his building, who walks Eddie and takes piano lessons from Jack. In all other respects, professionally and personally, Jacks life is a series of empty onenight stands. Now and again, he plays the challenging music he really cares about at a local jazz club.Concerned over the way they keep losing gigs, the Baker Boys hold auditions for a female singer to join the outfit, ending up with the beautiful but eccentric Susie Diamond Michelle Pfeiffer, a former escort with unusual charisma, a sultry singing voice, and emotional baggage she keeps well hidden most of the time. Shes late for the audition, cockily irreverent of their professional reputation, and ticks Frank off by saying shes got an intuition hell hire her anywaybut overcomes his reservations with her impassioned performance of More Than You Know, with Jack accompanying her, clearly more impressed with Susies singing and Susie herself than he wants to admit. After a rocky start, the new act becomes unexpectedly successful, leading to bigger gigs and better money, but Frank is worried that Jack will ruin it by sleeping with Susie, having noted the growing attraction between the two, and being all too well aware of his brothers effect on the opposite

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