Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Powerful

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A pretty entertaining road trip movie with music. There's something simple about it which makes it fun.The Leningrad cowboys are probably among the strangest band's I've seen. They are super exaggerated and their interaction with the American culture is great. There were many things that surprised me throughout and I really liked that they go all the way from Finland to Mexico. It's nice to see the two cultures meet in this movie since I have relatives from both countries.If "Blues Brothers" had a long lost cousin from Finland, then that would be this movie.

A family of ersatz, Eastern European musicians, with little talent beyond their 18-inch long pointed shoes and matching pompadours, tries to strike it rich in the New World, where anything goes, or so they hope. The episodic non-plot simply puts the unlikely ensemble in some equally unlikely settings (seedy urban truck stops, and so forth), and that, in or out of a nutshell, is the entire film.It's certainly the most accessible effort yet from the prolific Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, but this sort of deadpan irreverence can only be stretched so thin, and after a (short) while too much of the material is merely repetitive. Kaurismaki has often been called his country's answer to Jim Jarmusch (who appears here in a memorable cameo as a used car salesman), but on the evidence of this fitfully amusing one-joke novelty he may be embracing the comparison a bit too close.

This used to be on tv constantly and I always saw it in pieces,I am glad i finally taped it because it is a great and original movie.Jim Jarmusch is funny as the carsalesmen and all the mangled covers are inspired(my favorites are "At the Hop","Born to be Wild"(the only good version even better than Steppenwolf,Who?)& The Country song I can't remember the title)I need to see Leningrad's meet Moses too! I rate this film up there with Rocknroll High School!

Reminiscent of some of the best Eastern European comedies, this absurdist Finnish look at the foibles of both Communist and capitalist attempts at reality is not going to change your life, but it is an enjoyable way to spend 79 minutes. A rousing oompah band from a small Eastern European village travel to America to find their fortune. They all have hairdos like Buddy Holly on acid and wear the pointiest-toed shoes you've ever seen. In New York City they buy an old Cadillac and get a gig to play a wedding in Mexico. On the trip there they also travel through rock, blues, country, and mariachi, and meet people almost as strange as themselves. Most memorable moment: Igor, the village idiot, catching up to the band out in the middle of the Texas countryside, carrying a very large fish.