The Music Never Stopped

The Music Never Stopped is a 2011 American drama film directed by Jim Kohlberg, who makes his directorial debut from a script by Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks.

Based on Oliver Sacks essay The Last Hippie, the film tells the fatherson relationship between Henry Sawyer J.K. Simmons and his son, Gabriel Lou Taylor Pucci, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. Henry, with his son unable to shed light on their strained relationship, must connect with him through music.The film currently holds a 65 fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 49 reviews. Ty Burr of the Boston Globe remarked the film was one to remember, also calling it sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz. Nathan Rabin of the AV Club compared the films story to The Kings Speech, giving praise to J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci and calling the film a powerful, even shattering look at musics power to unite where it once divided. ........

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