An Italian-American barber from New Jersey founds a singing group.

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New Jersey, 1960’s. Barber by day and gangster by night with his childhood friend Tommy, Frankie Castelluccio dreams of a musical career. Blessed with an extraordinary voice that he tries out every night at the local club, he soon becomes Frankie Valli, leader of the legendary Four Seasons, other dreamers from modest origins. But their dream will come with a price...

From the very first shot where an actor talks directly into the camera in a goombah accent to explain the life of a New York gangster, the reference to Martin Scorsese seems inevitable. Even the roles played by Christopher Walken, Vincent Piazza and Renée Marino make Jersey Boys resemble a bad parody of Goodfellas, except with musical numbers instead of shootouts. In the wake of the unnecessary J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood confirms his age with this superficial, emotionless, minor flick that has one major effect: to make you want to see Dirty Dancing again, which featured the Four Seasons all over the soundtrack and was much less naïve in comparison.