I'll Be There (2003 film)

I'll Be There is an American- British tragi-comedy from the year 2003.

Action

Paul Kerr is a constantly drunken, aging Scottish rock star. During a binge night he takes his motorcycle, driving in his house around with it and uses a window pane in order to land in his garden. He injured so badly that henceforth all believe he had tried to commit suicide. Therefore, he is admitted in the psychiatry. As Evil Edmonds hears about on the radio, he goes to his granddaughter Olivia Edmonds. But Evil's daughter, Olivia's mother, Rebecca, will the aging musicians do not have in the house. Rebecca also wants Olivia does not use her musical talent, but as she herself is a hairdresser. Only when Olivia asks why she reacts so funny, says Rebecca, that she slept in Cardiff in 1987 with Paul Kerr and this is her father.

So they decide to visit Paul in psychiatry. Although Rebecca is absolutely repellent to Paul and he can immediately remember them all, he had devoted her with Los Woman a complete album. But he can not change their impression of him, because as Mary as Doris Lefano, Paul's wife, outputs to smuggle this, it looks to Rebecca as if he would flee again. Olivia prevents but not finding out more about her father. A short time later Digger McQuaid appears that Paul forces again to become sober within 30 days so that he can then re- visit his daughter. After this Olivia visits him and gets a motorcycle given, which both also make the same a round trip.

However, Rebecca does not like that Olivia spends time with her father and hears the music. She tries to talk to him and is still pissed that he never answered one of her letters, but it only sent autograph cards. Paul, too, is angry that he never knew anything about these letters. He is about to drink again and is only just prevented from Digger it. After he has to be convinced and secretly recorded her vocals with from Olivia's talent, Paul speaks with Evil Edmonds and tries to learn how he can win for Rebecca again. Later he asks Rebecca that she needs to let Olivia necessarily sing because she has talent and told her already that it's his record producer, Sam Gervasi, who has never forwarded their letters to him. He himself would have answered immediately, because he loved her from the moment in which he saw it for the first time.

But Rebecca refuses to continue. For Sam listens to the recording of Paul's Olivia and I will henceforth under contract. When Rebecca and Paul noticed and learn that Olivia has sneaked them that, they fear the worst and travel to London to ask Paul to task. But Olivia is not with him, but at the audition for admission to the Royal Academy of Music. There she introduces herself as Olivia Edmonds - Kerr and inspires all with her voice. When Rebecca hears her daughter, she is thrilled and agrees that it may be a singer. Finally, it is also back together with Paul.

Criticism

In Variety, Derek Elley said that " the charming film with its gentle pace lacks a strong personality." It just lacked the momentum in history. Ferguson, in his directorial debut, no handwriting could be identified, would save the film through his acting presentation in front of his own weakness, because he was playing " less extroverted than in the great Mackenzie and Saving Grace ."

In the British newspaper The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film two out of five stars and said that the film and especially Church " is not quite as bad as it could have been. "

The lexicon of the International film said, "The, based in Wales melancholy comedy sees itself as a throwback to the music of past years and their myths. In the debut film of British comedians, the Welsh singer Charlotte Church convinced though vocally, but her talent is proof guilty as an actress. "

Publication

The film was released on 13 June 2003 in British cinemas and on 1 August 2003 also isolated in the United States. He was subsequently expelled only on DVD for the rest of the world. In Germany it was published on November 24, 2004 directly to DVD.

2003 in film Screenplay James G. Robinson Film score Trevor Jones (composer) Ian Wilson (cinematographer) Sheldon Kahn Tom Ellis (actor) Cinema of the United Kingdom
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