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  • 2007
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Martin responds to an ad in the paper for a company called Great World of Sound that's setting up shop in a generic office park. After his interview, he's invited to attend a Saturday seminar, explaining what the job entails. There he meets larger-than-life Clarence, and the two hit it off right away. At the seminar, an articulate but so...

Directed By: Craig Zobel

Written By: George Smith, Craig Zobel

  • 2007
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Great World of Sound

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Martin responds to an ad in the paper for a company called Great World of Sound that's setting up shop in a generic office park. After his interview, he's invited to attend a Saturday seminar, explaining what the job entails. There he meets larger-than-life Clarence, and the two hit it off right away. At the seminar, an articulate but so...

Directed By: Craig Zobel

Written By: George Smith, Craig Zobel

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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11 Reviews
15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
72
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
The result is a beguiling and often poignant pageant of outsider musicians, but the broken heart of this extraordinary film comes directly from Zobel's own personal experience.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
83
Great World Of Sound is painfully specific about the music-scouting grind.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
75
Once the story moves up north to Indianapolis, things become pat and predictable. But for its first 80 minutes, Great World of Sound hits all the right notes.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
70
Enthusiastically received at Sundance, "Great World" is an intriguing look at our obsession with being successful and famous.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
A fitting 21st-century addition to the genre. The film's meager plotting and casual melancholy peg it as a modest indie, but these ingredients dovetail nicely with Zobel's bigger theme about the futility of the modern world.
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70
Morally ambiguous, subtly crafted, resolutely free of cliché and made with almost no money, The Great World of Sound is under-the-radar independent filmmaking in the Jarmusch-Cassavetes mode, both noble and ruthless in spirit.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
50
The joke is that the salesmen believe they're actually trying to discover talent and - like the people they're encouraging - are victims.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW

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Production Company GWS Media, Plum Pictures
Release Date Sep 14, 2007
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Tagline They're coming to make you a star!
Website http://www.greatworldofsound.com/film/
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Awards

Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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