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Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jerry Schatzberg
Screenplay by	John Binder; Carol Sobieski; William D. Wittliff;
Based on	Intermezzo; by Gösta Stevens; Gustaf Molander
Produced by	Sydney Pollack; Gene Taft;
Starring	Willie Nelson; Dyan Cannon; Amy Irving; Slim Pickens;
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Edited by	Aram Avakian; Norman Gay; Marc Laub; Evan A. Lottman;
Music by	Richard Baskin; Willie Nelson;
Production; company	Major Studio Partners
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	July 18, 1980;
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$11 million
Box office	$17.8 million

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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.

Plot

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.

Cast

Willie Nelson as Buck Bonham
Dyan Cannon as Viv Bonham
Amy Irving as Lily Ramsey
Slim Pickens as Garland Ramsey
Joey Floyd as Jamie Bonham
Charles Levin as Sid
Mickey Rooney Jr. as Cotton Roberts
Lane Smith as Brag, Cotton's manager
Pepe Serna as Rooster
Priscilla Pointer as Rosella Ramsey
Diana Scarwid as Jeanne
Jeannie Seely as Jeannie
Emmylou Harris as herself
Rex Ludwick as Tex
Mickey Raphael as Kelly
Grady Martin as himself
Bee Spears as Bo

Release

Critical reception

Film critic Roger Ebert called the film "sly and entertaining"^[4] yet ultimately predictable and disappointing:

The movie remains resolutely at the level of superficial cliché, resisting any temptation to make a serious statement about the character's hard-drinking, self-destructive lifestyle...Honeysuckle Rose has the kind of problems that can be resolved with an onstage reconciliation in the last scene: Willie and Dyan singing a duet together and everybody knowing things will turn out all right.^[4]

Regarding Willie Nelson's performance, Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times:

Mr. Nelson doesn't entirely fit his role, any more than the other actors fit theirs. He seems too odd, too solitary, for all the intimacy forced upon him by the story line. But he brings tremendous authority to every gesture, and his character is the only thing in the movie about which the audience is bound to want to know more. Mr. Nelson accomplishes all this in a role with very little dialogue, which makes his sheer force of personality seem all the more impressive.^[5]

The film was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.^[6]

Wide Open Country music magazine ranked it the second best Willie Nelson film, behind Red Headed Stranger.^[7]

Honeysuckle Rose holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews.^[8]

Box-office

Honeysuckle Rose opened theatrically in 826 venues on July 18, 1980 and earned $2,189,966 in its first weekend, ranking third in the domestic box office. Ultimately, the film grossed $17,815,212.^[3]

Accolades

Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
Academy Awards^[9]	Best Original Song	"On the Road Again" Music and Lyrics by Willie Nelson	Nominated
Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Supporting Actress	Amy Irving	Won
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards	Worst Supporting Actress	Amy Irving	Nominated

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
- "On the Road Again" – Nominated^[10]

Soundtrack

A soundtrack was released by CBS in 1980.

Charts

Chart (1980)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[11]	34

References

^ "HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 28, 1980. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
^ "AFI|Catalog".
^ ^a ^b "Honeysuckle Rose (1980)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Ebert, Roger (July 18, 1980). "Honeysuckle Rose (1980)". RogerEbert.com. Chicago Sun-Times.
^ Maslin, Janet (July 18, 1980). "Honeysuckle Rose". The New York Times.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Honeysuckle Rose". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
^ Sparkman, Darby (March 31, 2021). "Willie Nelson's Best Movies, Ranked". Wide Open Country. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
^ "Honeysuckle Rose". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved July 30, 2016.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 283. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

External links

Honeysuckle Rose at IMDb
Honeysuckle Rose at the TCM Movie Database
Honeysuckle Rose at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Honeysuckle Rose at Box Office Mojo

[1] "HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 28, 1980. Retrieved January 9, 2016.

[2] "AFI|Catalog".

[mojo-3] "Honeysuckle Rose (1980)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 9, 2016.

[Ebert-4] Ebert, Roger (July 18, 1980). "Honeysuckle Rose (1980)". RogerEbert.com. Chicago Sun-Times.

[5] Maslin, Janet (July 18, 1980). "Honeysuckle Rose". The New York Times.

[festival-cannes.com-6] "Festival de Cannes: Honeysuckle Rose". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2009.

[7] Sparkman, Darby (March 31, 2021). "Willie Nelson's Best Movies, Ranked". Wide Open Country. Retrieved August 21, 2021.

[8] "Honeysuckle Rose". Rotten Tomatoes.

[Oscars1981-9] "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2011.

[10] "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved July 30, 2016.

[aus-11] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 283. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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+'''''Honeysuckle Rose''''' (also known as '''''On the Road Again''''') is a 1980 American [[Romance film|romantic]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] [[Western (genre)|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 (1936 film)|Intermezzo]]''.
 ==Plot==
-Buck Bonham is a [[Country music|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. The only question is will his family and friends stand by him?
+Buck Bonham is a [[Country music|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.
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 * [[Willie Nelson]] as Buck Bonham
 * [[Dyan Cannon]] as Viv Bonham
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 * Joey Floyd as Jamie Bonham
 * [[Charles Levin (actor)|Charles Levin]] as Sid
-* [[Mickey Rooney, Jr.]] as Cotton Roberts
+* [[Mickey Rooney Jr.]] as Cotton Roberts
 * [[Lane Smith]] as Brag, Cotton's manager
 * [[Pepe Serna]] as Rooster
@@ Line 69: / Line 67: @@
 * [[Grady Martin]] as himself
 * Bee Spears as Bo
+}}
-{{div col end}}
 ==Release==
+===Critical reception===
+Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] called the film "sly and entertaining"<ref name=Ebert>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/honeysuckle-rose-1980|author=Ebert, Roger| title=Honeysuckle Rose (1980)|publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|website=RogerEbert.com|date=18 July 1980}}</ref> yet ultimately predictable and disappointing:<blockquote>The movie remains resolutely at the level of superficial cliché, resisting any temptation to make a serious statement about the character's hard-drinking, self-destructive lifestyle...''Honeysuckle Rose'' has the kind of problems that can be resolved with an onstage reconciliation in the last scene: Willie and Dyan singing a duet together and everybody knowing things will turn out all right.<ref name=Ebert /></blockquote>
+Regarding [[Willie Nelson]]'s performance, [[Janet Maslin]] wrote in the ''[[New York Times]]'':<blockquote>Mr. Nelson doesn't entirely fit his role, any more than the other actors fit theirs. He seems too odd, too solitary, for all the intimacy forced upon him by the story line. But he brings tremendous authority to every gesture, and his character is the only thing in the movie about which the audience is bound to want to know more. Mr. Nelson accomplishes all this in a role with very little dialogue, which makes his sheer force of personality seem all the more impressive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/18/archives/honeysuckle-rose.html|title=''Honeysuckle Rose''|author=Maslin, Janet|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=18 July 1980}}</ref></blockquote>
+The film was screened out of competition at the [[1981 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1717/year/1981.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Honeysuckle Rose |access-date=2009-06-07 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930220821/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1717/year/1981.html |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
+Wide Open Country music magazine ranked it the second best Willie Nelson film, behind ''[[Red Headed Stranger (film)|Red Headed Stranger]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sparkman |first1=Darby |title=Willie Nelson's Best Movies, Ranked |url=https://www.wideopencountry.com/willie-nelson-movies/ |website=Wide Open Country |date=March 31, 2021 |access-date=21 August 2021}}</ref>
+''Honeysuckle Rose'' holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/honeysuckle_rose |title = Honeysuckle Rose |website = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref>
-===Box office===
+===Box-office===
 ''Honeysuckle Rose'' opened theatrically in 826 venues on July 18, 1980 and earned $2,189,966 in its first weekend, ranking third in the domestic box office. Ultimately, the film grossed $17,815,212.<ref name=mojo>{{cite web | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=honeysucklerose.htm | title=Honeysuckle Rose (1980) | work=[[Box Office Mojo]] | publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]] | access-date=January 9, 2016}}</ref>
-===Critical reception===
+===Accolades===
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
-In 1981, Nelson was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] for "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]". Irving won a [[Golden Raspberry Awards|Golden Raspberry Award]] for [[Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress|Worst Supporting Actress]].
+|-
+! Award
+! Category
+! Nominee(s)
+! Result
+|-
+| [[53rd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars1981">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |title=The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-07 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110111156/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |archive-date=2014-11-10 }}</ref>
+| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Song]]
+| "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]" <br> {{small|Music and Lyrics by [[Willie Nelson]]}}
+| {{nom}}
+|-
+| [[1st Golden Raspberry Awards|Golden Raspberry Awards]]
+| [[Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress|Worst Supporting Actress]]
+| rowspan="2"| [[Amy Irving]]
+| {{won}}
+|-
+| [[1980 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards|Stinkers Bad Movie Awards]]
+| Worst Supporting Actress
+| {{nom}}
+|}
+The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
-Noted film critic [[Roger Ebert]] called the film "sly and entertaining"<ref name=Ebert>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/honeysuckle-rose-1980|author=Ebert, Roger| title=Honeysuckle Rose (1980)|publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|website=RogerEbert.com|date=18 July 1980}}</ref> yet ultimately predictable and disappointing:<blockquote>The movie remains resolutely at the level of superficial cliché, resisting any temptation to make a serious statement about the character's hard-drinking, self-destructive lifestyle...''Honeysuckle Rose'' has the kind of problems that can be resolved with an onstage reconciliation in the last scene: Willie and Dyan singing a duet together and everybody knowing things will turn out all right.<ref name=Ebert /></blockquote>
+* 2004: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs]]:
-Regarding [[Willie Nelson]]'s performance, [[Janet Maslin]] wrote in the ''[[New York Times]]'':<blockquote>Mr. Nelson doesn't entirely fit his role, any more than the other actors fit theirs. He seems too odd, too solitary, for all the intimacy forced upon him by the story line. But he brings tremendous authority to every gesture, and his character is the only thing in the movie about which the audience is bound to want to know more. Mr. Nelson accomplishes all this in a role with very little dialogue, which makes his sheer force of personality seem all the more impressive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/18/archives/honeysuckle-rose.html|title=''Honeysuckle Rose''|author=Maslin, Janet|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=18 July 1980}}</ref></blockquote>
+** "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]" – Nominated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs400.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Nominees |access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref>
-The film was screened out of competition at the [[1981 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1717/year/1981.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Honeysuckle Rose |access-date=2009-06-07 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930220821/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1717/year/1981.html |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
 ==Soundtrack==
-A soundtrack was released by CBS in 1980.
+A [[Honeysuckle Rose (album)|soundtrack]] was released by CBS in 1980.
 ===Charts===
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 |}
-===Accolades===
-The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
-* 2004: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs]]:
-** "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]" – Nominated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/songs400.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs Nominees |access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 * {{IMDb title|0080888|Honeysuckle Rose}}
+* {{TCMDb title|id=16814}}
+* {{AFI film|56437}}
 * {{Mojo title|honeysucklerose|Honeysuckle Rose}}
-* {{Rotten Tomatoes|honeysuckle_rose|Honeysuckle Rose}}
 {{Jerry Schatzberg}}
+{{Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress}}
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 [[Category:American romantic drama films]]
+[[Category:1980 Western (genre) films]]
+[[Category:American Western (genre) films]]
 [[Category:Country music films]]
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+[[Category:Golden Raspberry Award–winning films]]
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+[[Category:Films with screenplays by Carol Sobieski]]
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+[[Category:English-language musical drama films]]
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