Sometimes you just need a feel-good movie and a good tearjerker, and writer/director Craig Brewer delivers both with Song Sung Blue.
Named for the Neil Diamond song, this drama is not going the way of A Complete Unknown or the Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere route. Instead of a biopic about the American singer-songwriter behind “America” and “Sweet Caroline,” Brewer explores the power of Diamond’s music through the stranger-than-fiction story of the tribute band known as Lightning and Thunder.
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star as this musical married couple, known offstage as Mike and Claire Sardina. They love each other as intensely as they love Diamond’s music. Fitting, then, that their breathtaking story is full of the emotional highs and lows of some of his most beloved songs.
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