Neil Hamburger - Western Music and Variety With Neil Hamburger - DVD

Keith Gordon is a young film maker who like to film his family and friends doing strange things. Randomly the Maestro, a film director shows up and gives him film advice. This is a dysfunctional family comedy.

Like a cheerful harmony sung slightly off-key, this 1984 musical comedy pairs Dolly Parton's effortless warmth with Sylvester Stallone's granite-jawed earnestness for a culture-clash that knows it is silly and embraces it. Parton plays a savvy country singer who wagers she can remake a hard-boiled New York cabbie into a convincing Nashville crooner, sending the pair on a headlong journey south filled with character lessons, gentle satire, and toe-tapping songs. Directed by Bob Clark and featuring Richard Farnsworth, the film cheerfully insists that reinvention is possible if you're willing to laugh at yourself along the way.

When Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) gets a cry for help from his old school chum Dora (Nana Bryant), he packs the whole clan up and heads out west to help her save her ranch. Landing where the buffalo roam, Judge Hardy sets to "researches and strategizes" for a legal answer to Dora's water rights issues while Andy (Mickey Rooney) tries to pass as a Westerner with disastrous results. And to compound the complications, sister Marian (Cecilia P