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2015
PG
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 41 m

2015
PG
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 41 m

Summary What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Grammy for Record of the Year went to Wrecking Crew recordings. And now, The Wrecking Crew tells the story in pictures and that oh, so glorious sound. The favorite songs of a generation ...

Directed By: Denny Tedesco

2015
PG
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 41 m

2015
PG
Magnolia Pictures
1 h 41 m

The Wrecking Crew

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

67

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

7.6

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Summary What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Grammy for Record of the Year went to Wrecking Crew recordings. And now, The Wrecking Crew tells the story in pictures and that oh, so glorious sound. The favorite songs of a generation ...

Directed By: Denny Tedesco

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

76% Positive
13 Reviews

24% Mixed
4 Reviews

0% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

76% Positive
13 Reviews

24% Mixed
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Jun 23, 2015

An entertaining and compelling story about music’s unsung heroes.

Washington Post

Mar 26, 2015

Nostalgia trips are fun, but when they intersect with genius, virtuosity and genuine revelatory insight, they take viewers to a higher place.

By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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7 Ratings

30% Mixed
3 Ratings

0% Negative
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30% Mixed
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Mar 12, 2015

As a love letter to the director’s late father, The Wrecking Crew sparkles. As a potentially comprehensive, context-rich chronicle of one of pop music’s most inspired engines of rhythm and melody, it mostly sticks to one note.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Feb 19, 2015

The enlightening and necessary film, narrated by an adoring Denny, is very much in the vein of 2002’s "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," a documentary that celebrated the Funk Brothers, the criminally unheralded house band at Berry Gordy Jr.’s hit-making studio in Detroit. But where "Standing in the Shadows" of Motown used re-enactments and new live performances, The Wrecking Crew is composed mostly of archival footage and newish interviews.

Mar 12, 2015

There are a thousand stories to be told in the studios where these session players cut some of the greatest records of all time, which makes it disappointing that there isn't more to be found in the documentary The Wrecking Crew.

By Kevin Jagernauth FULL REVIEW

Mar 10, 2015

The crew's recollections and occasional demonstrations, on their instruments, are revealing and delightful, but the film itself could use more of their professionalism and chops; the editing's haphazard, and it's not always clear why one segment follows another.

By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

Mar 10, 2015

Overall, the documentary comes off as a solipsistic, uncritical look at an incredible moment in the history of American music.

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Details

Production Company Lunch Box Entertainment

Release Date Mar 13, 2015

Duration 1 h 41 m

Rating PG

Genres

Tagline There Was Only One Band Behind Them All

Website http://www.facebook.com/WreckingCrewFilm

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Awards

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

International Documentary Association

• 1 Nomination

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

• 1 Nomination

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