2014 Directed by Bill Pohlad
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Paul Dano John Cusack Elizabeth Banks Paul Giamatti Jake Abel Kenny Wormald Brett Davern Graham Rogers Erin Darke Bill Camp Joanna Going Nick Gehlfuss Mark Linett Johnny Sneed Gary Griffin Teresa Cowles Vince Meghrouni Jeff Meacham Max Schneider Diana Maria Riva Erik Eidem Dylan Kenin Carolyn Stotesbery Fred Cross Tyson Ritter Jeff Galfer Morgan Phillips Wayne Bastrup Oliver Pohlad Show All…
爱与宽容, Love and Mercy, Love & Mercy, la véritable histoire de Brian Wilson des Beach Boys, Láska a odpuštění, Amor y Compasión, אהבה וחסד, Szeretet és köszönet, 러브 앤 머시, Meilė ir malonė, The Beach Boys: Uma História de Sucesso, The Beach Boys – Uma História de Sucesso, Любовь и милосердие, Aşk ve Merhamet, Любов та милосердя, Yêu Thương Quay Về, 爱与慈悲, 迷失巨声, 搖滾愛重生
CanadaPG
Toronto International Film Festival
USAPG-13
South by Southwest Film Festival
Canada
USAPG-13
AustraliaM
Brazil14
Germany6
USAPG-13
FranceU
Ireland12A
UK12A
Portugal
Spain
Israelהותר לכל
Sweden
Israelהותר לכל
Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
UK
USA
Could've sat through at least another 30 minutes of Wilson in the recording studio.
paul dano sweetie i'm sorry, i'm so sorry the academy ignored your performance when you clearly deserved the recognition more than half of that year's nominees
Listen to Pet Sounds. If you've never done so before, listen with headphones. If you think of the Beach Boys as a band about surfing and California, listen to Pet Sounds. If you think of them as the band from Full House, listen to Pet Sounds. If you're alive right now, listen to Pet Sounds. I am not generally at home to the Baby Boomer canon of rock music, but one place they got it right is Pet Sounds. This is the music of the human soul.
What this film does best is show the process of recording this album. It's fan service, certainly, to play that drum beat from "I'm Waiting for the Day," to let that riff play,…
i’d almost forgotten that biopics could be this soulful, probing, and empathetic. (feels a touch reductive to use the b-word). if only Oren Moverman had time for all of the great musicians. poor RAY, ya know? he really got shafted. Dano is brilliant as "past" Brian Wilson, and John Cusack is... well, he's definitely alive. and, as "future" Brian Wilson, better than he's been in anything since High Fidelity.
A film with the shocking revelation that there are people worse than Mike Love out there.
A recording studio in Southern California. A group of studio musicians assembled. An undeniably brilliant (and possibly insane) young man wanders the room, obsessively perfecting each instrument’s part. One player calls him over. Something is wrong. All the strings are in one key, and the horns are in another. How is it going to work?
Brian Wilson shrugs. It works in his head. So it will work on tape.
LOVE & MERCY is like that too. It tells two simultaneous stories about one man played by two actors working in very different keys. Paul Dano uncannily recreates the young Brian Wilson; he looks and sounds just like him. John Cusack plays the middle-aged Wilson and looks and sounds just like ...…
I didn’t know a single thing about Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys before watching this so this was all new and EXTREMELY interesting to me. Paul Dano is fuckin awesome
88/100
Unlike anything I've ever seen, as it simultaneously condenses and expands on the tropes of the "sub-genre" (biopic) that it's been unfortunately squeezed into. Todd Haynes crafted 6 different versions of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There., but Bill Pohlad was wise in sticking with the dual-structure, especially because the conclusion rhymes in a way that works towards its yearning, symmetrical fashion. Separate sections of a complete whole have never felt so brilliant in their various contradictions, and like the good old days of vinyl, Love and Mercy enthralls like a perfect A-Side/B-Side record.
The two performances, both portraying Brian Wilson but each in different mindsets and settings (60s and the 80s), by Paul Dano and John Cusack are,…
this morning i woke up and thought to myself “today is the day i’m supposed to watch paul dano sing some beach boys songs” and then i did it!! as frances halladay says, “sometimes it’s good to do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it”
do not underestimate the power of hearing paul dano sing songs by the beach boys!! or the power of paul dano running around a recording studio in a plastic fireman hat! i’ve watched this three times now & my only complaint is that each time i have had to come to terms with the fact that i will be singing god only knows for a week straight. a small price to pay for a perfect performance!
I really would love to punch Mike Love in the face.
"God Only Knows" is one of the best songs ever written.
