The Fabulous Baker Boys

...the film is infected with faded hope, of lives turned to the faltering patter of the ordinary.

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.

...it's Pfeiffer who deserves the most credit. Her Susie is an original--smart, hard-headed, andunsentimental.

With humor that cuts through a deep undercurrent of sadness, Baker Boys captures the rinky-dink milieu of second-rate lounges, where patron kibitzing threatens to drown out the piano-tinkling of the paid entertainment.

The Fabulous Baker Boys is the tale of apair of has-been lounge-lizard siblings (...) taking on a feisty chanteuse is the kind of bluesy romantic drama we rarely see anymore...