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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary In the wake of the turbulent 1960s, a new style of song and songwriter came to the fore. In Los Angeles, the emerging center of the American music scene, young songwriters come together to express, to inspire, to complete, to love. That scene largely revolved around an old beatnik club with capacity of a few hundred people, The Troubadou...

Directed By: Morgan Neville

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 41 m

Troubadours

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the wake of the turbulent 1960s, a new style of song and songwriter came to the fore. In Los Angeles, the emerging center of the American music scene, young songwriters come together to express, to inspire, to complete, to love. That scene largely revolved around an old beatnik club with capacity of a few hundred people, The Troubadou...

Directed By: Morgan Neville

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
25% Positive
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75% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
25% Positive
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75% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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70
Feb 3, 2011
For with songs like "You Can Close Your Eyes," "You've Got a Friend" and numerous others on the soundtrack, this is finally a film hard not to enjoy.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 1, 2011
The enjoyable, lightweight Troubadours is a musical scrapbook that throws together a bit of this and a bit of that.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 5, 2011
An amiable endeavor, if something of a puff piece.
By Pam Grady FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 1, 2011
The film is entertaining but hardly penetrating.
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60
Feb 1, 2011
Director Morgan Neville does an adequate job in retracing the explosion of singer-songwriter talent out of West Hollywood's legendary Troubadour club, but makes a bad choice by starting now, not then.
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58
Feb 24, 2011
It's woeful as a documentary history -- a real missed opportunity.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 1, 2011
It's such a haphazard, absent-minded history lesson that you'd think the filmmakers had ingested some of the era's pharmaceuticals before concocting this tribute.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 1515 Productions Limited, American Masters Pictures, American Masters, Artemis Rising Productions, Bay Bottom News, Crew Neck Productions, DOC Film Institute, Dakota Group, DeepFocus Productions Inc., Eagle Rock Entertainment, High Line Productions, Historic Music Library, ITVS International, KQED Public Broadcasting, Malpaso Productions, Merrywidow Films, NGL Studios, On-Screen Entertainment, Perfect Day Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), RPM Television Productions, Rainy Mountain Media, Raven Rouge, Red Envelope Entertainment, Spy Pond Productions, Steeplechase Films, Submarine Entertainment, Thirteen / WNET, Thirteen Productions, Thirteen for WNET.org, Thirteen/WNET Communications Group, Tremolo Productions, Turner Entertainment, Twin Cities Public Television Inc., UnLadyLike Productions, Vision Maker Media, Vulcan Productions, Yap Films
Release Date Feb 2, 2011
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Unrated
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