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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

  • Documentary
  • Music

109 minutes

2004-10-05

6.6

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This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow-up to the Beach Boys' cutting-edge mega-hit, Pet Sounds. The new album was to be called "SMiLE". SMiLE pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically, and was supposed to out-do the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper record. But Brian wasn't able to sell the project to his band-mates when they returned. The project was shelved and Wilson's well-documented decline into depression, drug abuse, recluseness, and obesity had begun. Thirty-odd years later, Wilson announced that in 2004, SMiLE would be performed live in its entirety in London. This film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light.

Cast

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Self
Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine

Self
Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

Self
Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Self
Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey

Self
Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Imbruglia

Self
George Martin

George Martin

Self
Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Self

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