Not Fade Away Paramount // R // $39.99 // April 30, 2013 Review
by Jamie S. Rich | posted April 24, 2013 E - M A I L this review
to a friend Graphical Version    I hate to fault a movie for
trying to do too much, because so many movies don't try to do
hardly anything at all, but that's exactly how Sopranos-creator
David Chase fumbles his reels with Not Fade Away, his feature
debut as a writer and director--there's just too damn much going
on. For his initial foray on the big screen, he tries to
encapsulate the entire experience of 1960s suburban New Jersey
into under two hours. That means rock 'n' roll, the generation
gap, the sexual revolution, racial politics, and Vietnam, not to
mention the more general problems of entering adulthood, much
less doing so at the end of a period of social turmoil.  Not
Fade Away begins by highlighting two important events: the death
of John F. Kennedy and the arrival of the Beatles. Both capture
the imagination of young Douglas (John Magaro, Liberal Arts),
and both provide so