BEFORE: This time Jeff Bridges carries over, getting 20 years younger and thinner in the process, and trading his guitar for a piano...
Already this year I've covered hangovers, wild times in Vegas, government conspiracies, press junkets, country music tours and time in rehab - jeesh, what a week!
THE PLOT: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play schmaltzy music, but times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they add a female singer.
AFTER: I figured this would be your typical love triangle situation, but it wasn't. One brother is married, and the other isn't, so that made it a lot more complicated, in a good way.
What I said yesterday about "Crazy Heart" also applies here - you punch in, play your music, work hard, stay clean, and you get to do it again tomorrow. But the amendment here is that the situation lasts until you decide you don't want to do it any more, or until a co-worker comes along and shakes up your routine, and you re-evaluate your career.
Again, it seems like the stars actually performed the music, those were their real vocals, and at least partially real piano-playing, though some stand-in keyboarding by Dave Grusin was used.
Featuring one of the better "bad audition" montages I've seen - right up there with the singing Hitlers one in "The Producers".
Also starring Beau Bridges (last seen way back in "Charlotte's Web", but most familiar to me as Earl Hickey's dad on "My Name Is Earl"), Michelle Pfeiffer (last seen in "The Russia House") with a cameo from Jennifer Tilly (last seen in "Liar Liar").
RATING: 6 out of 10 fruit baskets
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