Honeysuckle Rose (film)
Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again) is a 1980 American romantic drama western film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, written by John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, and William D. Wittliff, and starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, and Amy Irving. It is a loose remake of the 1936 Swedish film Intermezzo.
Honeysuckle Rose
- John Binder
- Carol Sobieski
- William D. Wittliff
- Sydney Pollack
- Gene Taft
- Aram Avakian
- Norman Gay
- Marc Laub
- Evan A. Lottman
- Richard Baskin
- Willie Nelson
- July 18, 1980
119 minutes[1]
United States
English
$11 million[2]
$17.8 million[3]
Plot[edit]
Buck Bonham is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of his former guitarist joins his tour. The road leads to temptation, which leads to his downfall.
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Film critic Roger Ebert called the film "sly and entertaining"[4] yet ultimately predictable and disappointing: