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On February 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, ratcheting up the frenzy of a fan base whose ecstatic devotion to the band heralded an explosive new wave of youth culture. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks back to that fateful weekend, following six New Jersey teenagers, each with different reasons for wanting to see the Fab Four, on a madcap mission to Manhattan to meet the band and score tickets to the show. With this rollicking first feature, director Robert Zemeckis and cowriter Bob Gale established themselves as a filmmaking team par excellence, adept at mining America’s cultural memory for comedy and adventure with a winning mixture of sweet nostalgia and playful irreverence.
Original Release
04/01/1978
US Release
04/20/1978
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Nancy Allen | Pam Mitchell |
Bobby Di Cicco | Tony Smerko |
Marc McClure | Larry Dubois |
Susan Kendall Newman | Janis Goldman |
Theresa Saldana | Grace Corrigan |
Wendie Jo Sperber | Rosie Petrofsky |
Eddie Deezen | Richard 'Ringo' Klaus |
Christian Juttner | Peter Plimpton |
Will Jordan | Ed Sullivan |
Read Morgan | Peter's Father |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Nancy Allen | Pam Mitchell |
Bobby Di Cicco | Tony Smerko |
Marc McClure | Larry Dubois |
Susan Kendall Newman | Janis Goldman |
Theresa Saldana | Grace Corrigan |
Wendie Jo Sperber | Rosie Petrofsky |
Eddie Deezen | Richard 'Ringo' Klaus |
Christian Juttner | Peter Plimpton |
Will Jordan | Ed Sullivan |
Read Morgan | Peter's Father |
Claude Earl Jones | Al |
James Houghton | Eddie |
Michael Hewitson | Neil |
Dick Miller | Sgt. Bresner / Sergeant Brenner |
Vito Carenzo | CBS Security Guard |
Luke Andreas | Police Officer in Alley |
Roberta Lee Carroll | Cafeteria Girl #1 |
Sherry Lynn | Cafeteria Girl #2 |
Irene Arranga | Flatbush Club: Sheet Girl |
Carole H. Field | Club Leader |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Steven Spielberg | Executive Producer |
Bob Gale | Producer |
Tamara Asseyev | Producer |
Alexandra Rose | Producer |