One-Trick Pony (film)

One-Trick Pony
Directed byRobert M. Young
Written byPaul Simon
Produced byMichael Tannen
StarringPaul Simon
Blair Brown
Rip Torn
Joan Hackett
CinematographyDick Bush
Edited byEdward Beyer
Barry Malkin
David Ray
Music byPaul Simon
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • October 3, 1980 (1980-10-03)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$843,215[1]

One-Trick Pony is a 1980 feature film written by and starring Paul Simon and directed by Robert M. Young. It also stars Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Mare Winningham, Michael Pearlman, Lou Reed in his feature film debut, and Allen Garfield (credited under his birth name, Allen Goorwitz).[2] Receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film bombed at the box office.

The song "Late in the Evening" from the film's soundtrack hit number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the title song peaked at number 40.[3] After years of being available only on videocassette and laserdisc, One-Trick Pony was released by Warner Bros. on DVD in 2009.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "One-Trick Pony". IMDb. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  3. ^ "Paul Simon". Billboard. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  4. ^ Howells, Sacha (May 18, 2009). "Warners Finally Dusts off Dozens of Lost Classics, and Hundreds of Not-Sos". MTV. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.