The Music Never Stopped

Name: The Music Never Stopped
Genre: Drama
Released: March 18, 2011
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 60

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Roadside Attractions | Release Date: March 18, 2011 | PG

Summary: Based on a case study by Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), and featuring music from Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the heartwarming journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities through the music that embodied the generation gap of theBased on a case study by Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), and featuring music from Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the heartwarming journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s.(Roadside Attractions)… Expand

Director: Jim Kohlberg

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 106 min

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Nathan Rabin

Mar 17, 2011

The film emerges as a powerful, even shattering look as music's power to unite where it once divided. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Mar 18, 2011

Unpretentious and unexpectedly moving. Read full review

Ty Burr

Mar 31, 2011

A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Mar 18, 2011

Often static and follows a familiar trajectory. Yet it has power, partly because Simmons does a fine job of showing how hurt Henry is that his taste didn't imprint on Gabe beyond grade school; what was their music became, simply, dad's music. Read full review

Joe Williams

Apr 1, 2011

A medical drama that pays lip service to the healing power of music but never finds the rhythm. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Mar 31, 2011

The true wonder of this low-budget movie, however, is its acquisition of the rights to so much of the previously mentioned music. It's almost exclusively Dylan and the Dead, but damned if you won't be stopping for some Cherry Garcia ice cream on the way home. Read full review

David Fear

Mar 15, 2011

These kinds of disease-fueled dramas already tend to be soap-operatic, but Kohlberg isn't taking any chances; by the time father and son end up at a Dead show in matching tie-dyed outfits, the director has aggressively, insistently overplayed audience heartstrings like Jerry Garcia in a long-winded solo. Read full review

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Mojocinco85

Mar 23, 2011

Stunning performances by both J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci in this great film of a struggling father/son relationship. The music is amazing. You don't need to be a Dead Head in order to enjoy this movie but it won't hurt.

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badabumtss

Jan 25, 2014

One cannot forget the scene that Gabriel first listened to "all you need is love". Yes, music always takes people to the first time they had heard it; and Lou Taylor Pucci's way of showing it felt so real that made me cry.

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mandm1951

Jun 2, 2011

Confession: I am product of the 60's and an aging DeadHead. Verdict: I laughed. I cried. (But so did my gf, who is not a DeadHead.) This film is a tear-jerker in a sometimes melodramatic way, but it may be worth a couple of hours of your time. Even if the father-son relation doesn't grabConfession: I am product of the 60's and an aging DeadHead. Verdict: I laughed. I cried. (But so did my gf, who is not a DeadHead.) This film is a tear-jerker in a sometimes melodramatic way, but it may be worth a couple of hours of your time. Even if the father-son relation doesn't grab you, the classic-rock music might.… Expand

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