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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
This Time

Summary This Time is a celebration of six diverse artists living on the flip side of the music industry. They’ve sung back-up for Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and Jimi Hendrix, been homeless while their songs were on the charts, and struggled to fill tiny cabarets while fighting for their big break – all the...

Directed By: Victor Mignatti

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 51 m

This Time

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary This Time is a celebration of six diverse artists living on the flip side of the music industry. They’ve sung back-up for Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and Jimi Hendrix, been homeless while their songs were on the charts, and struggled to fill tiny cabarets while fighting for their big break – all the...

Directed By: Victor Mignatti

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Aug 6, 2012
Documentary director Victor Magnatti is more comfortable with loud and proud, and perhaps a tad suspicious of insinuation and circumspection.
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42
Aug 8, 2012
Not only does the film lack focus in its chosen spectrum of likeable performers, it also feels short of any kind of structure or arc, leaving its subjects to toil along in place for an overlong runtime with no end in sight.
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42
Aug 8, 2012
Unfocused, and feeling mostly incomplete in even the most basic standards of documentary film, This Time unfortunately reflects an amateur approach that is felt not just in the filmmaking but in the very people trying to bring The Sweet Inspirations, Pat Hodges and Bobby Belfry to bigger recognition.
By Kevin Jagernauth FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 14, 2012
Tantalizing snippets from their combative history and rotating membership are tossed to the sidelines; the members' personality clashes and mutual psychoanalyzing hint at a much better story left untold.
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40
Aug 9, 2012
This earnest, at times touching, reach-for-your-dreams doc about musical hopefuls in middle age gets sidetracked quickly. When it should focus on a reunited R&B group, it wallows in the self-aggrandizement of an L.A. producer and, most awkwardly, a New York cabaret singer.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 8, 2012
The Sweet Inspirations ranked as one of the most important backup singing groups in record-industry history, having performed with Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Dionne Warwick, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, the Drifters, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley. Yet, aside from an occasional still photograph, not a single frame of archival footage from their illustrious careers shows up in This Time.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Inspiration 101
Release Date Aug 10, 2012
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Every dream has a soundtrack.
Website http://www.thistimemovie.com/
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