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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1995

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Music

User Score

90%

Original Title

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback

Production Companies

MCA Records

Description

From the lyrical juxtapositions of two generations of teenagers in "Free Fallin'" to the award winning "Mary Jane's Last Dance" featuring Kim Bassinger, Petty treated his clips as small films. The narrative "Into the Great Wide Open," which features Faye Dunaway and Johnny Depp, actually resulted in offers to make Petty's story/song into a full length motion picture. Petty's reaction was, "It already is." Here are the best videos of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a powerful document of the early evolution of a new kind of art -- and some rockin' tunes by a great band. --Bill Flanagan, September 1995