Love and Mercy

On Saturday June 27th I went to the Balmoral Cinema to see the Love and Mercy. In the 60's the young Brian Wilson(Paul Dano) who with his group the Beach Boys having success with hits like I get Around, Surfin USA, Surfin Safari, Help Me Rhonda and California Girls when he is driven to change the musical direction of the group which would lead to the making of the album Pet Sounds which has become an classic album and having the hit Good Vibrations before breaking down and in the 1980's the older Brian Wilson(John Cusack) who is an broken and an confused man who is under the control of therapist Eugene Landy(Paul Giamatti) but it's meeting an lady named Melinda Ledbetter(Elizabeth Banks) who is determined to save Brian and it gets interesting. It's an BRILLIANT and an SUPERB movie with excellent acting by Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti. It's directed by Bill Pohlad who also produces it with John Wells and Claire Rudnick Polstein, Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman did the screenplay and Robert Yeoman did the cinematography. It's an amazing story of how this man got through this and is still going strong as he has a new album as well as currently touring at the moment. This is a must for Beach Boys fans and I give this 4 and an half stars which it's still running in the cinemas now.

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