The David Cassidy Story

I relived good memories of David Cassidy and the Partridge Family. I also learned a lot about him that I never knew. Andrew did a great job. I really loved seeing David and Andrew together at the last of the movie.

I saw this movie in DVD version. Well, first of all, I would like to say that Kavovitz choice was really great, cos' he looks like David Cassidy and sometimes we could make some confusion about who is who. But there is some errors in the movie. For example, in one scene we could see David in 1973 tour and in another one, we see him celebrating his 21th anniversary... We all know that David was born in 1950, so he should be celebrating his 23th anniversary... Other thing that I realized is that David begun to wear the shell's necklace around 1973 or 1974, not in 1970!!! But despite of these details, the movie is interesting, soft and very nice, showing the career of one most important pop idol of the 70's. I can say that I felt myself very happy and thrilled when I saw that surprising ending... I almost cried!!!

TV bio-pics never tend to work very well, but that doesn't mean there is not a reason to watch. People like to watch this genre of movie for two reasons: a) to see how much the actors look like the real people, and b) to see how the historic events that we have heard so much of, are played out. David Cassidy and the Partridge Family Years delivers.

Andrew Kavovit plays David Cassidy, the 1970's super star who played Keith on the now classic TV series, and launched a huge (but short lived) pop career. All the important supporting players are there, including step mom Shirley, and co-star Susan Dey. The story centers mainly on David's relationship with his cantankerous father Jack.

According the film Jack sends young David on an audition for a new TV series about a singing family. Since step mom Shirley is already the lead, David is a shoe in for the part. The show takes off and David is able to launch a singing career. Ironically, David is not able sing the music he loves, and in the end is persecuted by the public for singing the pop music he hates. David's father, who mentions at one point that he turned down a part on that 'new Mary Tyler Moore Show' playing Ted Knight, is jealous of his sons huge success.

And that is pretty much the story.

Now, as a movie, this film is OK. The cast does look a bit like the characters they are playing. I thought they made Susan Dey look like a complete moron, but I can live with that. The costumes and the hair styles are fun as well.

All in all it is pretty obvious that we are watching a low budget TV movie, but I can live with that as well. The major scandals are covered nicely and we are treated to some of those classic tunes (as sappy as they are) throughout the film.

David Cassidy and the Partridge Family Years knows its limitations and doesn't try to over step them. Not a bad movie if there is nothing else on.

I happen to catch this today on VH1 Classic - channel surfing pays off sometimes! I really liked getting the insight into David Cassidy. And boy did they do some great casting in getting Andy to play David - he was great, looked so similar it was eerie, sounded great and - as others have stated - you can tell he spent time with or studied David and had his mannerisms down.

I gotta say this movie broke my heart - his relationship with his Dad, his reaction to that poor girl's death in London! I think some performers would have been more like "hey, wasn't my fault..." but it really rocked him. When he dealt with the scenes with Jack in Vegas and then when Jack died... he gave a great performance.

I LOVED that they had David come out at the end and he and Andy performed together!

You can tell that David had his hand in this and spent some time on it.

I liked the "real" take on things (relationship with father, the concerts, all the chicks, drugs, etc) instead of the other bubble gum versions.

Everyone seemed to get their characters down well. Andy did a great job of mimicking David's gestures, speech patterns, the sighing, etc. He had to have spent time with Cassidy getting all of that down.

This is a good version of behind-the-scenes Partridge/Cassidy. All in all, I've got a better impression of Cassidy...he has lived through what very few people ever get to go through. It must have been surreal to live through that.