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Jimmy Testagross

Jimmy Testagross

Drama

Michael Cuesta

Lois Smith, David Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy

2012

USA

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Completed

English

95 minutes

2025-03-02 13:49:14

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This film (drama)Also known asRoadie,is aUSAProducerwomen sex,At2012Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish,Current Douban rating7.1(For reference only)。
Since childhood, Jimmy Testagross (played by Ron Eldard) has loved music and eventually became a professional touring musician. Over a span of 25 years, he has performed across 6 continents, leading his music team on tours around the globe, with millions of fans and followers. Now, as a middle-aged man, Jimmy decides to return home at the age of 45 to visit his elderly mother (played by Lois Smith), whom he has not seen since his father passed away when he was 20, as well as the small town and childhood friends he left behind. However, after years of time and change, his once caring mother has aged, and the memories of the vibrant small town have transformed drastically. Especially, childhood friends and first loves have married and moved on, creating a distance that has grown over the years. Through nostalgia, reminiscence, laughter, misunderstandings, and even conflict, time and the changes in society provide the once-famous rock star not just with warmth but also with the harshness of lost love and the inevitability of aging. Yet, the unchanging bond between mother and son remains warm and intact. The old photographs and clippings she keeps of her talented son from his youth become a source of motivation for middle-aged Jimmy to appreciate family and believe in life once more… For over 20 years, Jimmy Testagross has lived his childhood dream: being a roadie for his childhood heroes, Blue Oyster Cult. But the band's Arena-Rock glory days are a distant memory. County fairs and club gigs pay the bills, and Jimmy has become a casualty of these leaner times. With no place to go, no job prospects, and no real skills outside of being a roadie, Jimmy needs to regroup. So he returns to his childhood home in Queens, NY. There, he revisits old relationships: his ailing, widower mom, a high school crush, a former nemesis and, most importantly, his relationship with himself. Jimmy, the middle-aged man-child, has never grown up. He still carries the resentments and frustrations of his youth and has allowed them to fester and define who and what he is. Confronted with his mother's illness, Jimmy has a choice: let go of the past and take responsibility for both himself and the woman who raised and now needs him, or continue to live a life of lies and frustration.