Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

TxMike My wife and I watched this movie on Amazon streaming. While it appears to be a fictional story the science of using music to activate regions of the brain is real.Gabriel is born into a typical 1940s/1950s family with post-WW2 values. Work hard, study hard, eat dinner together, do family things. But Gabriel didn't fit easily into this mold, in fact he was more interested in music, like the group "The Grateful Dead". It blew up one evening in the late 1960s and Gabriel left home, just before he finished high school and pretty much lost contact with his family.Flash to the late mid 1980s and the family gets a call, Gabriel is hospitalized, turns out he has a very large, slow-growing benign tumor in his brain. Surgery is successful but Gabriel is different, he can't really carry on a conversation and can't seem to form new memories.A therapist gets involved and uses music, specifically the music that Gabriel identified with over the years, like The Dead, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and each time as the music starts Gabriel becomes animated, he carries on intelligent conversations, it is as if the music activates deep memories in his brain. And ultimately the family, especially his dad, is able to reconnect with him through the music which never stopped.Really good movie but a bit sad in certain scenes. Good acting from the principals, J.K. Simmons as dad, British actress Cara Seymour as the mom, and Pucci Lou as Gabriel.

Claudio Carvalho In 1986, the conservative 65 year-old mechanical engineer Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his wife, the housewife Helen Sawyer (Cara Seymour), are informed that their estranged son Gabriel Sawyer (Lou Taylor Pucci) has a brain tumor by Dr. Biscow (Scott Adsit) and they learn that that he is incapable to form new memories. Gabriel left home years ago when his father had an argument with him because he left the college night to unsuccessfully try to watch a Grateful Dead gig with his girlfriend Tamara (Tammy Blanchard) and his best friend Mark Ferris (Josh Segarra) and now he is completely disconnected from the world. Henry is compulsively retired by his chief and Helen decides to work to have money to pay Gabriel's treatment. Henry researches but the problem of his son and finds some good results through music therapy and he seeks out Professor Dianne Daley (Julia Ormond). Soon she discovers that the music from the late 60's and 70's, especially the Grateful Dead, is the key to connect Gabriel to the world. The reluctant Henry, who is also a music lover for from an older period, decides to learn these songs to bond with Gabriel. When a radio broadcasts a contest where the winner will receive a ticket for a sold-out Grateful Dead concert, he insistently tries to contact the radio to get the tickets."The Music Never Stopped" is a film based on a touching and beautiful tale of father-son connection through music. The first point to call the attention are the outstanding performances of J.K. Simmons, maybe in his best work, and the practically unknown Lou Taylor Pucci. The magnificent soundtrack is also amazing as well the discussion about bands from the 60 's and 70's and Grateful Dead. The film is a perfect combination of drama, funny moments and music. Any sensible fan of the music from the foregoing period will certainly adore this great little unknown movie. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Música Nunca Parou" ("The Music Never Stopped")

jm10701 I watched this movie because I'm a huge fan of Lou Taylor Pucci and I'm working my way through the movies he's made so far. It's a challenge, because I hate westerns and I hate action movies and I hate horror movies - but I LOVE Lou Taylor Pucci! so I'm determined to get through them all.Until I saw this one, I thought he could make any movie worth watching. He IS the only thing worth watching here, and it's very interesting seeing him play a character much older than he is, but he's not enough to float this leaden turkey.I should have axed it as soon as I saw the Grateful Dead mentioned in a review. The only thing more boring than the Grateful Dead are their moronic, obsessive fans - it's very appropriate that they're called deadheads. There was some great music in the 60s, but this movie left out all the good stuff except for the bits of Dylan they managed to squeeze in among the crap.The only decent acting is by Pucci; all the others are bad, but the worst by far is the woman who plays his mother. The screenplay is stupid and the direction is stupid and the whole movie is stupid - and that beard should have been left in the dumpster where they found it - but thank God it hasn't dampened my interest in Pucci. On to the next one.

retro75 Love J.K Simmons, loved 'Awakenings'......mix the two and I thought 'yeah, this might just be worth a watch'. Worth a watch it certainly is but alas just like Gabes beard, the film is thin, patchy and could have looked a good bit better with just a little more detailing.JK is as always, a pleasant watch and a likable character. His support in the form of Cara Seymour was excellent & Lou Pucci did his best with a think script and thin beard. I could go on and on about that f*cking beard but shall neglect to other than to say WHY IN THE NAME OF GOD!!! It was a cliché too far and unrequired!....Would I recommend this film, yes but only if Awakenings wasn't available. That said this film touches on a more social connection than Awakenings and one which many father of lost teenage boys could maybe learn something from. Heck we could all learn something from this film........don't judge other peoples likes against your own as nobody will win!7/10 (and a generous 7/10)