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David M. RosenthalDrehbuch:
David M. RosenthalKamera:
Anastas N. MichosMusik:
Eef BarzelayBesetzung:
Abigail Breslin, Joel David Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare, Alessandro Nivola, Frances Fisher, Frank Whaley, Rodney Eastman (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Rocker Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola) and his band are on the comeback trail when a former flame (Academy Award® nominee Elisabeth Shue) drops a bomb in his lap: their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones (Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin).
Ethan refuses to believe Janie is his kid, but when her mom suddenly leaves for rehab, the child has no place to go but into the tour bus and on the road with the band. With no feel for fatherhood, Ethan continues his hard-living ways, giving Janie a crash course of the not-so-glamorous life on the road.
As Ethan's self-destructive spiral threatens the groups future, his band members desert him one by one, until he and Janie are left alone. Desperate to finish the tour and revive his career, Ethan stays on the road as a solo act with Janie in tow, where her surprising musical talents help guide him down the rocky road to redemption.
Nivola and Breslin naturally embrace their musical characters both actually sing and perform in the film while developing Ethan and Janie's relationship in a refined way to delicately express the emotional needs of the characters. Writer/director David M. Rosenthal, who was inspired by his own experiences, blends the musical setting with road trip movie elements that add subtle layers to the dynamic of his two main characters.
(Tribeca Film)
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A nice and actually quite ordinary story from life that can happen to any rock star. And it is important to see how such a star behaves when such a problem occurs. Few people would act the same as old Jones, who finds out that he has a fifteen-year-old daughter he had no idea about before. Overall, even though it is full of sad moments, this film is actually quite positive. Sometimes even melancholic. And the music itself? That would be the biggest cherry on top I’ve ever seen.
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