Our favorite "rock and roll fable," STREETS OF FIRE, celebrates its 40th anniversary today!
Walter Hill's cult classic should've been one of the biggest rock musicals of the 80s, but it just wasn't in the cards. Released to theaters on the heels of massive hits like “Spinal Tap” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (and directly competing with “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock”), it was a box office bust. The film only made back just $8 million of its $14.5 million budget, which torpedoed plans for a trilogy.
The film stars Michael Paré as Tom Cody, a mercenary who is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, rock singer Ellen Aim (played by Diane Lane), who has been kidnapped by a biker gang led by Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe). The additional cast includes Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, E.G. Daily, and Bill Paxton.


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It's a fun movie and Dafoe was super creepy in it.
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