PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Leofwine_draca
Even by the low rent standards of Crown International Pictures, NIGHT CLUB is an awful film. It's a long forgotten, zero budget, 1989 tale about a bickering young couple who buy an old warehouse and plan to turn it into a thriving nightclub, but they run into problems - financial and otherwise - along the way.It amuses me that the IMDb defines this as 'action, comedy, drama' while my TV guide called it a horror. There's no action, horror, or comedy in it and the drama is limited to scenes of the whiny lead bitching about various trivialities. Viewers will quickly tire of Nicholas Hoppe's intensely irritating lead character which is off-putting in itself. 95% of the running time consists of characters sitting around in or fooling around in the abandoned warehouse while nothing happens to further the non-existent plot.Occasionally a Tarantino-lookalike gangster comes into the fray, but to pad out the film for the most part there's a series of incessant sex and nude scenes. These are silly and dated looking in the extreme, and the cheesy music that plays during them (and elsewhere) helps to make this film feel incredibly dated. It really is a mess, and one of the worst I've seen.
Wizard-8
In the mid 1980s, Crown International Pictures all but stopped acquiring and releasing new product. "Night Club" is one of the few movies they've handled since then, and after watching it I have no idea why they thought it was worth the effort, unless they were looking for some kind of tax write-off. This is real minimalist filmmaking - 90% of the movie focuses on the few actors talking boring stuff in an old warehouse. There is almost no plot to be found, with the movie instead spinning its wheels again and again. Technically it's often shabby as well, with some poorly recorded audio that no one thought should be looped in the editing room. The movie does boast a number of scenes of extremely gratuitous nudity and sex, but even that gets boring quick. Although made in 1989, the movie only seems to have been released to the public a few years ago - it's easy to see why.
dbborroughs
Married couple decide to open a nightclub in an old factory and have to battle to mob, local planners and each other if they ever want to get the place open.Dull drama that I found in a dreadful collection of supposed thrillers, this is the sort of film that makes you wonder why anyone bothered at all. I was never interested at any point thought the lead character was an immature bore. Why anyone went along with him for any reason is beyond me, but then again I'm not one of the fictional characters in the movie.Honestly fifteen minutes in I kind of stopped watching and was doing other things around the house hoping that at some point this film would do something interesting, but it never did.My advise is not to watch the film and send any print you run across to the nearest manufacturer of guitar picks for recycling.
Woodyanders
Moody aspiring writer Nick Taylor (the insufferably whiny Nicholas Hoppe) purchases an old warehouse that he's going to convert into a nightclub. Nick finds himself in deep trouble when several mobsters he borrowed money from begin harassing him and his loyal, but long-suffering wife Beth (a typically radiant and charming Elizabeth Kaitan) becomes fed up with his constant immaturity and inability to finish anything he starts. Writer/director Michael Keusch and co-writer Deborah Tilton unfortunately allow the muddled narrative to meander all over the place at a sluggish pace; the plot seriously lacks cohesion and ultimately doesn't add up to much. The tiresome excess of dopey dream scenes and corny music montages certainly don't help matters any. Worst of all, the extremely self-pitying and self-absorbed Nick doesn't make for an engaging main character; instead this irritating kvetch becomes more increasingly obnoxious and unappealing as the flimsy plot unfolds. The always sweet and sexy Elizabeth Kaitan provides one of the few bright spots with her bravura acting as both Beth and Nick's lusty imaginary mistress Liza. Moreover, Kaitan looks absolutely gorgeous in this film and takes her clothes off a few times. Ed Trotta contributes an amusing turn as volatile foul-mouthed hoodlum Eddie. Both Loius Di Cesare's glittery cinematography and the funky, syncopated score by Dana Walden and Barry Fasman are up to par, but all the technical slickness in the world can't stop this talky and tedious affair from being anything more than a strictly mediocre time-waster at best.