Sugar Town opens with a wannabe rock star (Jade Gordon) making a list about how to achieve that status. Attending the Grammys with an old, paparazzi-attractive guy is high on it. Tony Bennett will do. Also Tony Curtis.
Don't bet against her. This kid will steal anything--a boyfriend, clothes, jewels--to get to the top. And don't bet against Sugar Town either. It's the kind of movie Robert Altman might make if he ODed on Elavil--a multicharacter comedy about the Los Angeles rock scene. Make that the trashed rock scene. For it's mostly about people who once had it, then lost it,...
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