Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party may have a restricted engagement on October seventeenth and twentieth, Petty’s birthday.

The ready actually is the toughest half. Four a long time after it was made, Cameron Crowe’s debut movie, Heartbreakers Beach Party – which appears to be like at Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lower than a decade into their profession – will return to the general public eye. Long lacking from availability, the documentary aired simply as soon as on MTV again in 1983.

As per Sacks & Co., Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party has a brand new 4K remaster coming from Crowe’s 16mm supply. For the movie – which Crowe filmed in 1982, the identical 12 months his debut script was made into a bit film known as Fast Times at Ridgemont High – the director regarded on the band and rock and roll by the lens of the primary a part of the last decade as they labored on and toured their Long After Dark album, which featured singles “You Got Lucky” and “Change of Heart.” The presentation can even characteristic a brand new intro by Crowe and a 20-minute reduce of unreleased outtakes.

As Crowe famous, “Heartbreakers Beach Party occupies a special place in my heart. 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. It was also my first experience as a director. Thanks to Adria Petty and the Petty Estate, along with our co-filmmakers Danny Bramson, Phil Savenick, Doug Dowdle and Greg Mariotti, I’m so happy we’re bringing it back in all its reckless glory. 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. Let that sucker blast!”

Crowe is likely one of the most well-versed music lovers on the market. That he made a feature-length documentary as his first undertaking – particularly one on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – shouldn’t be a shock, however for the reason that movie has been hidden for thus lengthy, it’s. As a fan of each the band and the director, I can’t consider I hadn’t heard of it. So you higher consider I’ll be there on October seventeenth or twentieth, which might have marked Petty’s 74th birthday. Petty sadly handed away in October 2017.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had been most notably documented in Peter Bogdanovich’s Runnin’ Down a Dream, which chronicled the historical past of the band over the course of 4 hours – fairly good coming from a director who had no real interest in Tom Petty going into the undertaking.