Review – 54

This is like some kind of bad, made-for-TV version of Boogie Nights. Here we have the same sort of tired tale of a handsome youth corrupted by the decadence of a Babylon-esque society. If anything, one would expect this film to be at least a bit more brutal, based as it ostensibly is on the actual decline and fall of the legendary discotheque Studio 54. Instead we get the childish pageantry of Fame-like youngsters dreaming of glory while working the bar and the coat check room, with the protagonist and his soap star love interest concluding that beneath all the glamour they are both “Jersey” at heart. Please. See if desperate