The Music Never Stopped
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Directed by | Jim Kohlberg |
Written by | Gwyn Lurie Gary Marks |
Based on | The Last Hippie by Oliver Sacks |
Produced by | Neal Moritz |
Starring | J.K. Simmons Julia Ormond Mía Maestro Lou Taylor Pucci |
Cinematography | Stephen Kazmierski |
Edited by | Keith Reamer |
Music by | Paul Cantelon |
Production companies | Essential Pictures Mr. Tamborine Man |
Distributed by | Roadside Attractions |
Release dates |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $150,515[1] |
The Music Never Stopped is a 2011 American drama film directed by Jim Kohlberg, who makes his directorial debut from a script by Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks.
It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and was given a limited release in the US on March 18, 2011.
Plot[]
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Based on Oliver Sacks' essay The Last Hippie, the film tells the story of the father-son relationship between Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his son, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), who suffers from anterograde amnesia as the result of a brain tumor. Henry, with his son unable to shed light on their strained relationship, must connect with him through music.
Cast[]
- J.K. Simmons as Henry Sawyer
- Julia Ormond as Dianne Daley
- Mía Maestro as Celia
- Lou Taylor Pucci as Gabriel Sawyer
- Tammy Blanchard as Tamara
- Cara Seymour as Helen Sawyer
- Scott Adsit as Doctor Biscow
- Max Antisell as Young Gabriel Sawyer
Reception[]
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 67% approval rating, based on 49 reviews.[2] On Metacritic it has a score of 60% based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]
Ty Burr of The Boston Globe remarked the film was "one to remember", also calling it "sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz".[4] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club compared the film's story to The King's Speech, giving praise to J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci and calling the film a "powerful, even shattering look at music's power to unite where it once divided".[5]
Music[]
Soundtrack[]
Original music featured in the film is by Paul Cantelon.[6]
Additionally, the following songs were featured in the film and published as a standalone soundtrack album in 2011 on various online digital platforms, including Amazon and Apple Music.[7]
The album features one of the original pieces composed for the film by Paul Cantelon, 'Gabriel's Theme'.
Music by the band the Grateful Dead features prominently in the soundtrack and film.
- Track Listing
- "Till There Was You" (Peggy Lee)
- "Uncle John’s Band" (Grateful Dead)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Live) (Grateful Dead)*
- "I Threw It All Away" (Bob Dylan)
- "Magic Carpet Ride" (Steppenwolf)
- "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan)
- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
- "Not Fade Away/Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad" (Live) (Grateful Dead)
- "Truckin’” (Live) (Grateful Dead)*
- "Touch Of Grey" (Live) (Grateful Dead)*
- "Ripple" (Grateful Dead)
- "Summer Song" (The Tulips)*
- "Gabriel’s Theme" (Paul Cantelon)
* indicates previously unreleased tracks [8]
References[]
- ^ "The Music Never Stopped". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
- ^ "The Music Never Stopped (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
- ^ "The Music Never Stopped". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Music Never Stopped". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ Nathan Rabin (2011). "The Music Never Stopped". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ "The Music Never Stopped (2011)". The SoundtrackINFO Project. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
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External links[]
- 2011 films
- English-language films
- 2011 drama films
- American films
- American drama films
- Films about music and musicians
- Films shot in New York (state)
- American independent films
- Roadside Attractions films
- Films based on works by Oliver Sacks
- Films scored by Paul Cantelon
- 2011 directorial debut films
- 2011 independent films