Begin Again (2014)

A broken-hearted and deep-in-the-bottle music producer happens upon a broken-hearted songwriter at an open mic night and they, you know, Begin Again. There are a couple of problems with this movie: 1) Keira Knightley can’t lip sync for shit & she’s called upon to do so at least half a dozen times and 2) there are needless jumps backward in time so that I had a bit of trouble remembering where we were in the story.

But everything else just worked. The music was good, the performances were authentic, and the emotions didn’t get watered down. Also, I know the clip below is kind of cheesy, but this is the point in the film where I was just completely won over. On-stage Knightley underwhelms the bar crowd, but drunk Ruffalo manages to hear what it could be rather than what it is.

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