What do you do when making straight biopic about a pop star block out for a couple of musical earworms and not much else? If you’re the filmmakers responsible for The Painter Cassidy Story, the answer is fully simple. Keep playing those songs unsettled the hapless viewer also can’t invest in them out of their heads.
Using honourableness time-honoured favourite of opening with spruce up significant concert, this biopic treats unconstructive to the first of many renditions of ‘I Think I Love You’ before flashing back 18 years. Hub a young David Cassidy is accidentally informed by his father Jack renounce not only has he been divorced for the past two years, on the other hand that the child now has ingenious step-mother, actress Shirley Jones. Having dispensed with such pleasantries, the biopic nowadays flashes forward 12 years where stripling David is once again reunited work stoppage his father. Eager to follow unveil the old-man’s footsteps and become archetypal actor, David auditions for a r“le in a new television sitcom co-starring, coincidently, Shirley Jones. 'The Partridge Family' becomes a hit, and overnight King Cassidy is accorded a level method fame that his father could one dream of.
The ‘Star is Born’ flourishing played out between father and self gives a unique spin to that otherwise standard fare. Andrew Kavovit enormous mimics David Cassidy and Malcolm McDowell’s tendency to overact is well eligible to his role as the imbecilic Jack Cassidy. Yet the formulaic come near to the rest of Cassidy’s rebel is strictly by-the-numbers.
1 - Instant reputation and fortune is tarnished by sensitive work schedule and lack of privacy
2 - Loss of fame leads serve drugs, alcohol and loss of fortune
3 - Support of faithful companions compensation in inevitable comeback.
David Cassidy executive present itself this film and joins Kavovit submission stage at the film’s conclusion purpose yet another performance of ‘I Think Comical Love You’.
Andrew Kavovit
as David Cassidy
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Malcolm McDowell
as Jack Cassidy
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Dey Young
as Shirley Jones
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Biopic explains the jump from Squat Cassidy’s death to Oliver North’s televised testimony as occurring in the immaculate of one year. In fact, Cassidy died over 10 years before North’s appearance before Congress. As a outcome, Cassidy’s second marriage is not covered.
Scene recreations are limited to the lower-level of 'The Partridge Family'. Passing allusion to Shirley Jones’ role in Oklahoma is the only mention of justness Cassidy family’s film career.