Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

2004
1h 49m
7.0

7.0/10

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Documentary Music

"Plus: Brian Wilson Presents Smile Live!"

Overview

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.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Chautauqua Entertainment LSL Productions Showtime Networks
Production Countries
United States of America

Keywords

record producer drug use nervous breakdown pop music singer-songwriter american musician brian wilson self-destructive behavior

Quick Facts

Release Date October 5, 2004
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0421696

Cast

Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson

Self

David Anderle
David Anderle

Self

Hal Blaine
Hal Blaine

Self

Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges

Self

Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

Self

Carol Kaye
Carol Kaye

Self

George Martin
George Martin

Self

Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks

Self

Sylvie Simmons
Sylvie Simmons

Self

Michael Vosse
Michael Vosse

Self

Andrew Loog Oldham
Andrew Loog Oldham

Self

Tony Asher
Tony Asher

Self

Key Crew

David Leaf
Director
David Leaf
Writer
David Leaf
Producer
John Scheinfeld
Producer
Richard Waltzer
Producer
Melinda Wilson
Executive Producer