54: Director's Cut
The complete, uncensored version of Mark Christopher's acclaimed feature-film debut. The film is set in the 1970s, the wild and decadent disco era in which echoes of the recent sexual revolution can still be heard, when songs by Boney M., Donna Summer, and the Bee Gees were topping the charts. One of the symbols of the era was Studio 54, a cult club in Manhattan, where the most famous personalities of the time would go to party, including Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Michael Jackson, and David Bowie. "If the 1970s was a decade of heedless optimism, then Studio 54 was its glittering epicenter… [I]t was the place where paparazzi mingled with celebrity, where high-brow danced with low-brow, where pop art and fine art talked into the wee hours of the morning," writes Anthony Haden-Guest in his book about the famous club.We see this world through the eyes of 19-year-old Shane, a young man who wants nothing more than to leave his home in New Jersey and get his dream job at this New York club. He quickly begins to enjoy his new, carefree lifestyle, and he soon starts to see the complete reality of his American dream.
Mark Christopher
Born in 1963, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Mark Christopher is a director and screenwriter and a graduate of Columbia University's Film School in New York. His first steps in the film industry came with the production of short films, his debut being The Dead Boys' Club, which told the story of a shy boy from a small city who visits his cousin in New York. Three years later, he won a Teddy award for this next short film, Alkali, Iowa. Several years after his full-length feature debut, 54, he made Pizza, which won an Independent Spirit Award.
Selected filmography
1992 The Dead Boys' Club (short)
1995 Alkali, Iowa (short)
1998 Klub 54 / 54
2005 Pizza