Business, Music & Love

The producers of "Behind the Music" can only fantasize about a story like that of Beyond Gravity, the faux rock group depicted in "At Any Cost", a made-for-cable drama that premiered on VH1 in August 2000. With dreadful things befalling every band member (save the drummer, who is fairly quiet and sits in back), Beyond Gravity is about an incurable disease short of appearing on Lifetime instead of VH1. But then, a bit of excess is appropriate for TV movies (and rock and roll, for that matter).

Besides, Glenn Quinn's turn as the band's overly ambitious manager Ben deserves to be seen. Always an engaging actor, Quinn seems to relish his role as - by one character's estimation - "a vicious bastard". You'll relish it too, and that's reason enough to watch.

What begins as a fairly standard by-the-numbers story of a local band hitting it big in L.A. becomes a fascinating study of the two leads, Mills as Lance, Gravity's singer-songwriter, and Quinn as Gravity's increasingly corrupt manager, Ben. Quinn in particular turns in a gripping dramatic performance, as does co-star Flannigan as Lance's wife Chelsea. Catch this one if you can; it's a keeper!

The film was okay, quite entertaining. The cast was pretty good, and I'll second what the comment before me mentioned - Glenn Quinn was outstanding and he alone is reason enough to watch this movie. He played the selfish "evil" friend and manager of the band brilliantly!

There are a lot of songs performed by "Beyond Gravity" in this film, but this doesn't really come as a surprise considering the film is a VH1 production. However, if the soft rock/ pop music isn't to someone's liking one might as well flash forward those scenes.

The plot of a band trying to make it to the top in L.A. but having to overcome many obstacles on the way isn't too original, but quite entertaining, with some surprising plot turns here and there.

Go and buy At any cost because it's a good movie to watch Glenn Quinn is a good actor in it and so is the rest of the cast it has good music in it and it's great to watch it over and over so I'm telling everybody out there to go buy it Glenn Quinn is so cute and his a great actor. he's the best. It's a awesome movie to watch with family and friends

I can`t say I`m a fan of the VH1 music channel . MTV2 is more my scene though I`ve gone off it since they scrapped the viewers request hours . I was very surprised to see that VH1 produced this movie , I knew MTV did but since VH1 is " MTV on mogadon " I wasn`t expecting much , but at any early stage AT ANY COST shows it`s not going to play out in a predictable manner

Okay there are one or two cliches but this is a fairly cynical film , and the best thing about the movie is Ben , a manager who shafts everyone for the chance of a quick buck . Ben is an utter b@stard and comes close to being one of the best screen villains I`ve seen in a while , I promise you you`ll hate this guy with a vengance , he makes Simon Cowell look like the kindest man who`s ever lived . Just a pity the film ends in a laughably contrived manner , but it`s a lot better than I expected