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Feel Good Clever Humorous Sentimental
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Musician's Life Performer's Life Fall in Love Celebrity Culture Showbiz Artists and Showbiz Lifestyle Love and Romance more...
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Comedy Romance Hollywood Tone
Time/Period:
Contemporary 21st Century
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New York USA Urban
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Date Night Girls' Night
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Pop
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Music and Lyrics, 2007

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant

Directed by: Marc Lawrence

Written by: Marc Lawrence

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 96 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.6

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Music and Lyrics can be described as feel good, clever, and sentimental. The plot revolves around celebrity culture, the life of a performer, and the life of a musician. The main genres are comedy and romance. In terms of style, Music and Lyrics has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. Music and Lyrics is located in New York. It takes place in contemporary times. The soundtrack is pop. Music and Lyrics is well suited for a girls' night and a date night. Note that it involves sexual content.

Summary of Music and Lyrics

Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a cynical and self-deprecating former pop idol (the hilarious opening video introduces his '80s new wave band Pop!) who is now playing the nostalgia circuit, but has maintained enough dignity to turn down an appearance on a "Battle of the '80s Has-Beens" TV reality show. Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore) is a gifted writer with deep inferiority issues who's been hired to water Fletcher's plants, and ends up becoming his emergency fill-in lyricist for a song he needs to deliver to teen queen singer Cora (Haley Bennett) in four days.

Despite this contrived "cute meet," the film, to its great credit, deftly avoids many possible rom-com tropes in favor of organic, character-driven conflicts and comic situations. Alex and Sophie fall in love, struggle over their song, and wrestle with their own respective resistance to romantic happiness, while simultaneously coping with the frustrations of the creative process and the demands of the music industry. The two leads (aided by great comic sidekick turns from Brad Garrett and Kristen Johnston) manage to pull all this off with a lightness of touch that makes the characters' vulnerability appealing and not pathetic. The original songs by Adam Schlesinger (the go-to guy for singer-songwriter film music) is charming and catchy.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	14 February 2007
Runtime:	96 min

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Drew Barrymore

as Sophie Fisher

Hugh Grant

as Alex Fletcher

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USA Today

This appealing romantic comedy undertakes the conventions of the formula without an inordinate amount of clichÃÂ©s. Music also infuses the overall plot with a satire of the music industry, and the pop tunes and lyrics are catchy. Full Review

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by: Claudia Puig

The Onion (A.V. Club)

The film's a bit like a dessert that could have been dinner, particularly with so many winning elements (including songs by Fountains Of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and a brief appearance from a wickedly sleazy Campbell Scott). But dessert isn't a bad... Full Review

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by: Keith Phipps

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Before I saw this film, I was expecting some decent throwaway romantic comedy with a bit of music. Even though that's exactly what I got, that doesn't mean it's totally a waste of time. The film has the basic romantic comedy setup (The two meet,... Read and rate it

12.October.2009
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by: Daniel Valdez
Daniel Valdez rated this movie0/10

I really wanted to like this more. What that means is while I give it 3 stars, I'd rather say it was okay rather than I liked it. It's supposed to be a romantic comedy, and overall I found it not all that terribly funny. There were humorous... Read and rate it

30.March.2009
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by: Parker in MN
Parker in MN rated this movie6/10Okay

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