hard core logo

Director: bruce mcdonald

Actor: hugh dillon,callum keith rennie,john pyper-ferguson,bernie coulson

Data Published: Fri Oct 11 1996

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Music

Key Words: band,documentary filmmaking,rock band reunion,mockumentary,punk rock

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116488/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Core_Logo

Description: Hard Core Logo is a movie starring Hugh Dillon, Callum Keith Rennie, and John Pyper-Ferguson. A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so...

Plot: The movie is about a documentary team that follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo. Joe Dick gets the band back together ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk rock legend Bucky Haight, and personal mentor, is shot. They begin the tour in Vancouver and travel thousands of kilometers east along the Trans-Canada Highway to Winnipeg, then northwest along the Yellowhead Highway to Edmonton. On the way the band's dark secrets are revealed. John Oxenberger loses his schizophrenia medication and slowly loses his sanity. Billy Tallent finds out that by going on tour he loses his position in mainstream rock band Jenifur and with that his one shot at stardom. The band stops by Bucky Haight's reclusive estate only to find he was never shot and that Joe Dick fabricated the lie in order to get the band together. The band and documentary crew drop acid and experience hallucinations. Bucky admonishes Joe Dick for using him to get the band together. At Edmonton, Billy Tallent finds out he has another opportunity to permanently join Jenifur. Joe Dick finds out from the film crew and later attacks Billy on stage. Joe Dick destroys Billy Tallent's Fender Stratocaster, which was a gift from Bucky Haight, and the band parts ways. In the final scene Joe Dick drinks with the documentary crew members and shoots himself in the head.