Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Brooklyn hipster widower and teen daughter perform "indy" music. Hijinx ensue.

[Edgy MD]

Holy shit. Too many music films to choose from.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Don't let my opinion carry the day cuz critics seemed to like it but this needn't head up your playlist.

As a douchebag Brooklyn dad myself I was sort of embarrassed by the whole thing, which seemed to be a project of the Red Hook Chamber of Commerce & Tourism. Of course he owns a vinyl record shop and goes around recommending indie LPs to other oldsters, and shopping at precious local bakeries. They get Ted Danson to play a bartender but in order to prove its set in Brooklyn he talks mostly about smoking pot. The love interest is a gay artist, of course!

I guess at some level its a story about music overcoming grief but I was too cyncial about the other stuff to get that straight.

[Frayed Knot]

Sounds a bit like 2013's BEGIN AGAIN, where a past-his-prime hipster record company man, Mark Ruffalo, tries to lure shy singer/songwriter Keira Knightly into recording her music and, in turn, tries to form
a connection with his hipster daughter in the process.

This one, from the Irish writer/director Jim Carney known for his music movies [sING STREET; ONCE], wasn't bad

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Once is a good comparison for this. That was good, this wasn't.