The Fabulous Baker Boys

Director: Steve Kloves

1989 / 114min / 35mm

Working-class lounge pianist brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges find a new level of professional success—and new emotional complications in their lives—after adding sultry vocalist Pfeiffer to their act in Kloves’s romcom musical, lent an elegant sheen by the cinematography of Michael Ballhaus. “This romantic fantasy has a ’40s movie sultriness and an ’80s movie-struck melancholy. Put them both together and you have a movie in which ’80s glamour is being defined… When Pfeiffer (who does her own singing) delivers ‘Makin’ Whoopee’ while crawling over a grand piano like a long-legged kitty-cat, she rivals Rita Hayworth in Gilda.”—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

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