The Apple (1980) on Netflix
PG19801h 30mComedyFantasyMusicMusicalSci-Fi
Alphie and Bibi, from Moose Jaw, come to America for the 1994 Worldvision Song Festival. Boogalow International Music's duo wins by underhanded tactics, and Mr. Boogalow offers them a contract.
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Plot summary
Alphie and Bibi, a naive young pair from Moose Jaw, Canada, travel to America to sing in the 1994 Worldvision Song Festival. The festival favorites, a duo supported by the label Boogalow International Music, beat them through underhanded tactics, and the two are left downcast. Mr. Boogalow, who leads that label, then shows interest in their act and offers them a place on his roster. The pair accept, and the music industry's world of drugs, sex and temptation opens around them.
Cast
- Michael Loganas James Clark
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Apple (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The villain, record boss Mr. Boogalow, was based on French producer Eddie Barclay of Barclay Records: Israeli rock producer Coby Recht signed to the label in 1975 and said that although Barclay believed in him, "the guy looked to me like a villain".
- Golan filmed an uncut "Paradise Day" sequence that took a million dollars alone to make and never ended up on the screen; there were around fifteen dinosaurs on the set.
- The film met a largely negative audience at the festival, with some watchers throwing the vinyl records at the screen; according to Stewart, Golan was so distraught that afterwards he considered killing himself by jumping off a hotel balcony.
- Recht and Yotvat initially planned The Apple to cost $4 million, but as Recht told it, "Menahem [Golan] used to go like every week to Berlin and come back with another million. And then we got to $10 million."
- Recht lied to Golan that Stewart "was a great singer" to convince him to cast her as Bibi. Golan eventually noticed her poor singing, and Mary Hylan, a professional singer from L.A., served as Bibi's singing voice for the film.
- The sequence for the track "Speed" was filmed at the Metropol nightclub, which held the Guinness World Record for biggest indoor laser show, and some scenes were shot in a factory that formerly produced poison gas during World War II.
