Director – John Carney – 2025 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 98m
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A rock musician reduced to playing weddings but happy with his lot meets a former boy band star who steals one of his songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 29th
High heeled feet head for the dance floor. “Cel – e – brate Good Times – Come On.” The happy couple are enjoying themselves. You seem like a good crowd, says the frontman Rick (Paul Rudd from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears, 2023; Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman, 2021; Ant-man, Peyton Reed, 2015), of the standards band (Rory Keenan from The Guard, John Michael McDonagh, 2011; Ella Enchanted, Tommy O’Haver, 2004; Reign of Fire, Rob Bowman, 2002; Keith McErlean from Flora and Son, 2023, Sing Street, 2016, both John Carney; Paul Reid from Flora and Son). Here’s a song from my last album.
In Rick’s mind, he and his band are on a night stage at a music festival playing to a vast, enthusiastic and indeed magical crowd holding smartphone torch lights. The wedding party don’t share his enthusiasm, however, and the floor is clearing as he inadvertently brings the evening to an end.… Read the rest
