Variety
This real-life dramedy is anchored by Michael Sheen’s captivating performance as the severely handicapped, profoundly acerbic Art Honeyman.
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Music Within
A true story about Richard Pimentel (Livingston), a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam severely hearing-impaired and finds a new purpose in his efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities. The film also features an actor pretending to have palsy, and has a woman championing free love.
2008Rating: M, offensive language, sexual references & drug use93 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Steven Sawalich (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Bret McKinneyMark Andrew OlsenKelly Kennemer
- Cast:
- Ron LivingstonMelissa GeorgeMichael SheenYul VazquezRebecca De MornayLeslie Nielsen
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USA Today
Movies often don't do their stories justice, and that has happened again here. The main problem is a tone that jarringly switches from a kind of Forrest Gump-style narrative to a more generic biopic.
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Hollywood Reporter
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters.
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Los Angeles Times
The result is that they never truly find the innate drama in Pimentel's story, instead simply recounting four or five decades' worth of events that shaped the man.
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