The Music Never Stopped
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  • Summary: Based on a case study by Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), and featuring music from Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the heartwarming journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s.(Roadside Attractions)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 13
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    Mar 17, 2011
    83
    The film emerges as a powerful, even shattering look as music's power to unite where it once divided.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    Mar 31, 2011
    75
    A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Mar 18, 2011
    60
    Often static and follows a familiar trajectory. Yet it has power, partly because Simmons does a fine job of showing how hurt Henry is that his taste didn't imprint on Gabe beyond grade school; what was their music became, simply, dad's music.
  4. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    Apr 1, 2011
    50
    A medical drama that pays lip service to the healing power of music but never finds the rhythm.

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  1. Mojocinco85
    9
    Stunning performances by both J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci in this great film of a struggling father/son relationship. The music is amazing. You don't need to be a Dead Head in order to enjoy this movie but it won't hurt.… Expand
  2. mandm1951
    7
    Confession: I am product of the 60's and an aging DeadHead. Verdict: I laughed. I cried. (But so did my gf, who is not a DeadHead.) This film is a tear-jerker in a sometimes melodramatic way, but it may be worth a couple of hours of your time. Even if the father-son relation doesn't grab you, the classic-rock music might.… Expand

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