Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile (2004)
1h 49m
Running Time
October 5, 2004Release Date
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile (2004)
1h 49m
Running Time
October 5, 2004Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
David Anderle
Actor
Hal Blaine
Self
Jeff Bridges
Self
Elvis Costello
Self
Roger Daltrey
Self
David Leaf
Director
Natalie Imbruglia
Self
John Scheinfeld
Producer
Carol Kaye
Self
Brian Wilson
Composer
George Martin
Self
Paul McCartney
Self
James Mathers
Cinematographer
Van Dyke Parks
Self
Peter S. Lynch II
Editor
Sylvie Simmons
Self
Michael Vosse
Self
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile is a 2004 documentary film directed by David Leaf about Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' unfinished Smile album, and the making of Brian Wilson Presents Smile.