If you`ve ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for.The Who`s brilliant rock opera is sublimely matchedby director Ken Russell`s penchant for cinematic excess duringthe peak of his filmmaking audacity. It`s a fever-dream of musical bombast,revolving around the titular`deaf, dumb, and blind kid'` (Roger Daltrey) who survives the childhood trauma that stole his senses to become a Pinball Wizard. Tommy`s odyssey is rendered through wall-to-wall music,from the bloodstream shock of`The Acid Queen` (Tina Turner) toElton John`s towering rendition of`Pinball Wizard` and Daltrey`s epiphanous rendition of`I'm Free`. Otherstar performers include Eric Clapton and (most outrageously) the Who`s drummer Keith Moon.Tommyisa classic ofcreative rock cinema, worthy of the musicaland filmmaking geniiwho fuelled its creation.