Upon working with a talented beautiful singer, Aussie, whom falls for Frank, two young talented siblings, who play piano, struggle against winning her heart.
It's a film specializing in smoky, down-at-the-heels glamour, and in the kind of smart, slangy dialogue that sounds right without necessarily having much to say.
Flipside Movie Emporium
October 03, 2002
There have been only three truly breathtaking torch singers in movie history: Rita Hayworth, Jessica Rabbit, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Calgary Movies
April 04, 2007
What I really enjoyed about The Fabulous Baker Boys is the way it balances between the three key characters, as well as the outside world that they're up against.
A completely engaging, thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy structured entirely on the strength of its main characters. One of the ten-best of 1989.
Chicago Sun-Times
January 01, 2000
This is one of the movies they will use as a document, years from now, when they begin to trace the steps by which Pfeiffer became a great star.
Kloves' directorial debut features three superlative performances by Jeff and Beau Bridges (as bickering siblings) and particularly Michelle Pfeiffer, who's at her sexiest with a show-stopping number atop a piano in red dress!
