Sean Fennessey

Interesting movie, not a successful movie.

Directed by John Carney, probably best known for Once, a musical that I like quite a bit.

This is a movie that he and Peter McDonald, I think wrote some years ago and it was in a drawer and got pulled out of a drawer and they were able to,

sell it and make it and it's about a guy named Rick Power who's a wedding singer living in Ireland and he is at a wedding one night and he meets a kind of aging sort of washed up boy band singer who's played by Nick Jonas he's not playing himself but maybe slightly inspired by some of his experience and

They're buds.

They become quick buds, and they have a little jam session together.

And while there, Danny, who's played by Paul Rudd in a very likable performance, starts playing one of his songs that he's written.

And it's an undeniably catchy song.

And Nick Jonas, who's trying to kind of relaunch his career, goes back to the States.

And he effectively adopts the song.

He takes a piece of what the Danny character or what the Rick character has done and he expands upon it and it relaunches his career and it becomes a huge hit.

And then Rick, who has no documentation of this moment and no documentation of this song recorded anywhere in the past, tries to reclaim ownership and reclaim his own sense of personal grace.

Sure.

Sure.

There's something to that.

A little bit less fame.

Yes.

Including, you know, the song.

There's a beautiful component of the movie, which is who Rick wrote the song for and what it means to him.

And what it means for the song to be taken from him.