The Buddy Holly Story | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The plotting of this 1978 biopic is contrived, and director Steve Rash's feeling for Buddy Holly's time and place is virtually nil, but Gary Busey's performance is astonishing-less as an interpretation than as a total physical transformation.

An extraordinary performance by Gary Busey as the early rock'n'roll star gives life to this otherwise ordinary film.

It's Gary Busey's galvanizing solo performance that gives meaning to an otherwise shapeless and bland feature-length film about the American rock-and-roll star who was killed in a plane crash in 1959.

Ultimately, the success of the film rests on Gary Busey's performance. Not since we saw the young Montgomery Clift and James Dean in their earliest roles has an actor emerged with so sharp and instantly empathetic a persona.

...a better-than-average behind-the-scenes drama that boasts a sterling turn from Busey and a whole lot of memorable music.