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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

Plus: Brian Wilson Presents Smile Live!

05 Oct 2004
  • United States of America
109 mins
7
8 votes
  • Documentary
  • Music
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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.
  • Brian Wilson

    as Self
  • David Anderle

    as Self
  • Hal Blaine

    as Self
  • Jeff Bridges

    as Self
  • Elvis Costello

    as Self
  • Carol Kaye

    as Self
  • George Martin

    as Self
  • Van Dyke Parks

    as Self
  • Sylvie Simmons

    as Self
  • Michael Vosse

    as Self
  • Andrew Loog Oldham

    as Self
  • Tony Asher

    as Self

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