The Night We Called It a Day (film)

The Night We Called It a Day 2003 is an Australian film directed by Paul Goldman starring Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra and Melanie Griffith as Barbara Marx, and featuring Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, and David Hemmings. The movie is based on the true events surrounding Sinatras 1974 tour in Australia. When the singer calls a local reporter de Rossi a twobit hooker, every union in the country blackbans the star until he issues an apology.

In 1974, Rod Blue is a surfer with shoulderlength hair in Sydney, Australia who also stages rock concerts, unsuccessfully most of the time. Needing a big idea, he decides to fly to Los Angeles, make himself more presentable and try to persuade Frank Sinatra to come to Australia to sing.Sinatra takes a liking to the kid, overhearing him express why Sinatras music means so much to him and to everyone. With his lawyer Mickey Rudin and righthand man Jilly Rizzo in assent that a trip like this would be a good thing at this point for the singers career, Sinatra agrees to go. ........

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