Last night Kim told me she picked up advance tickets to see Music Within at the Lagoon in Minneapolis.
Based on a true story, Music Within is about the road that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act from Richard Pimentel’s childhood, through his hearing loss during Vietnam, and finally with Bush Sr’s pushing of the ADA during 1988 and passing in 1992.
I’m always weary of these free movies as we rarely see anything that’s extraordinary (save for Garden State which remains a favorite of mine) but Music Within was absolutely fantastic from start to finish. It was hyterical, deeply moving, and interesting. How they could take the 15th anniversary of the passing of the ADA and make it kick so much ass I’ll never know.
Winner of 5 film fest awards, this is certainly a movie you need to see if you’re looking for something out of the mainstream and want to understand that it really is ok to laugh at someone with a disability instead of staring through them as if they didn’t exist like Mom taught.
I am a big 70s rock fan and there were plenty of toe tapping, knee slapping, sing along favorites that I was more than happy to drown out the two old people behind us by belting out my own poor renditions.
So not only was it funny, moving and extremely well done, the soundtrack kept the movie moving along at a pace like only a action film can do for me. A definite winner in my book. I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD.
Next week we’ll be seeing Wristcutters: A Love Story, stay tuned for my review of that one. Being that it was released in 2006, I’m not sure why we have free tickets to it — perhaps a wider theatrical release to see if it will do better?
I wrote this on my hiptop before conclusion of jury duty today, so forgive any misspelling until I can get back to grammar and spell-check it ;)
See some unrelated pics from yesterday here.
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