54 is a 1998 American drama film written and directed by Mark Christopher, starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, and Neve Campbell. It also stars Mike Myers as Steve Rubell, the co-founder of Studio 54, a New York City disco club famous in the late 1970s and the setting for the film. Shane O'Shea is a young Jersey man, handsome enough to become a bartender at Studio 54. There he befriends aspiring singer Anita Randazzo and her husband, Greg . Shane gets sucked into the hard-partying scene at Studio 54; as his life spirals downward, so does Studio 54. Based on two short films he had made,... Mark Christopher persuaded Miramax Films to back a film about Studio 54. He had spent five years researching the club and the time period, as well as working on a screenplay. Miramax purchased a partial screenplay in 1995 and developed the script with the filmmaker for over a year. Christopher shot the film in Toronto over two months in the fall of 1997. During the production, a Miramax executive was often found on the set and studio head Harvey Weinstein flew up from New York to give his approval.
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| Release date: | August 28, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Mark Christopher |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ira Deutchman, Richard N. Gladstein, Dolly Hall |
| Editor: | Lee Percy |
| Music by: | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography: | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Screenplay by: | Mark Christopher |
| Estimated budget: | $18,000,000 |