Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
Plus: Brian Wilson Presents Smile Live!
Ratings
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.
Production
Chautauqua Entertainment, LSL Productions, Showtime Networks
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Cast
Brian Wilson
Self
David Anderle
Self
Hal Blaine
Self
Jeff Bridges
Self
Elvis Costello
Self
Carol Kaye
Self
George Martin
Self
Van Dyke Parks
Self
Sylvie Simmons
Self
Michael Vosse
Self
Andrew Loog Oldham
Self
Tony Asher
Self
Danny Hutton
Self
Lou Adler
Self
Melinda Wilson
Self
Rob Reiner
Self
Probyn Gregory
Self
Darian Sahanaja
Self
Jeffrey Foskett
Self
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