Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers titled Heartbreakers Beach Party is set to finally be screened in cinemas with a new restoration.
Watch its trailer below.The film is notably the debut of director Cameron Crowe, who filmed and completed the project in 1983.
Heartbreakers Beach Party depicts the band recording and promoting their fifth album ‘Long After Dark’, which will be reissued next month.Heartbreakers Beach Party never made it to cinemas in the 1980s, as Crowe reveals in a press statement. “The fact that it was yanked from MTV after only one airing at 2:00 A.M.
just shows that it was indeed an outlandish feast for fans in all the best ways,” he says. The film will be released in cinemas worldwide on two days only: October 17 and 20.Earlier this year, Crowe was reunited with the 16mm reels of the film, which were long thought to be lost for decades.“Heartbreakers Beach Party occupies a special place in my heart,” says Crowe. “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers leaned into the making of the film with a kind of hilarious music-filled honesty that still feels fresh forty years later.
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