About the film
- Directed by
- Peter Webb
- Released
- November 28, 1984
- Certification
- PG
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney
More credits
- Language
- English
- Origin
- GB
- Studios
- MPL Communications
- Written by
- Paul McCartney
- Produced by
- Andros Epaminondas, Peter Manley, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney
- Cinematography
- Ian McMillan
- Music
- Paul McCartney
- Also starring
- Tracey Ullman, Ralph Richardson, John Burgess, Ian Hastings, Philip Jackson
A former Beatle once spent a fortune of his own money making a movie about losing a tape.
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET (1984) stars Paul McCartney as a version of himself, a musician racing against a 24 hour deadline to find a missing master tape before he loses his recording company to a shady businessman named Rath. The plot, such as it is, serves as a loose frame for a string of musical numbers and re-recorded Beatles and Wings songs.
Peter Webb directs from a script written by Paul McCartney. Bryan Brown plays Steve, tangled up in the mystery, while Ringo Starr and Linda McCartney appear as themselves. Ralph Richardson turns up in one of his final screen roles, and Tracey Ullman gets an early film credit as Sandra.
It flopped on release, but the soundtrack outlived the movie, and the film remains a strange time capsule of McCartney in the mid 1980s.
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I love this movie.
Awesome Movie.. underrated in my opinion
Like most fans in those days- I watched it once, cringed and moved on. Like many of his albums
Allen Klein -was like the Greg Allman character “I’m No Angel”. Sure , he had some shady dealings but his overall impact was hugely positive. Red/Blue albums (his vision) turned Beatles from “old HUGE band” into enduring phenomenon. It launched second wave of Beatles fans (and more since)
While no masterpiece, I enjoyed this movie a great deal but I have always theorized that it was because I heard him talk about it in an interview, where he said that people had always asked him to make a ‘day in the life’ film, to which I always responded with a jovial laughing comment about how his life wasn’t very interesting at that point. So instead he decided to make a movie about what he imagined the average fan thought his life was like. I went straight to the theater and saw it. Laughed my a$$ off the whole time because I was in on the joke. The problem here was that MPL (an indo record label, for Paul’s music at the time) knew nothing about promoting a movie.
Always loved this film!
There are memorable and worthwhile parts of the film which I remember and seek out while rewatching, including Paul as a busker doing a jazzed up version of Yesterday in front of the Broad St Station. Also the Victorian dream sequences. Tracy Ullman debut. RINGO is always a benefit to this film. Albert Hall performances. Many great scenes but wasn’t pulled together as much as some critics thought it should. Reminds me of the Magical Mystery Tour critics. They are forgotten but Paul’s films endure, warts and all.
I actually like this film and soundtrack
I love Paul but he should’ve lost the movie…and the tape!!…🤣🤣🤣
Shite story but it looks good and has great songs. A good film to talk through when there’s dialogue. 🎸👌
I’m not going to watch it
Paul at his most embarrassing.
I loved it! Growing up in the late 80’s I have a soft spot for it. And the soundtrack is fantastic.