This schematic however sweet-natured comedy drama drives down a story observe as straight and comfortingly predictable as an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine. Nonetheless, like Thomas along with his unshakeable religion in rail engine-kind and the knowledge of the Fats Controller, this soppy Netflix characteristic could tickle the tear ducts of even some cynical viewers, notably if they’ve a mushy spot for tales about particular wants children exceeding expectations.
After a pre-credit sequence set within the early 00s when a sure type of bland boyband was all the craze – though some may say that the second by no means actually handed – a quintet of English lads in a bunch known as Stereo Dream play their final gig collectively. Flash-forward 20 years, and Stereo Dream’s erstwhile “mysterious” chief Vince (Ed Skrein, arguably greatest recognized for enjoying the primary blond incarnation of Daenerys’ boo Daario in Sport of Thrones) lives in relative obscurity in Peckham. In the meantime, his former bandmate Austin (Eoin Macken) has grow to be a star sufficiently big for his retirement from touring to be an enormous deal, though anybody with a passing familiarity with the music trade would spot this doesn’t make quite a bit financial sense given the character of the biz.
Austin’s profession decisions are solely related afterward although, and largely the movie revolves round Vince’s relationship with an autistic teenage drumming prodigy named Stevie (Leo Lengthy), with whom in the future he has an impromptu jam on a municipal metropolis bench. Impressed with Stevie’s rhythmic presents, and reminded of his personal late brother, Vince tries to get Stevie to kind a two-man band and play a gig with him in an area pub. However Stevie’s protecting mom Amber (Eleanor Matsuura) doubts that her skittish son will address the noise and stress of performing, though it seems that Vince is the one who has a meltdown when he’s triggered by a heckler.
You’ll be able to see the place that is going already, can’t you? The plot virtually writes itself, and writer-director Eddie Sternberg has clearly been honing and sprucing to a diamantine sparkle within the seven years since he made a brief that sounds prefer it was principally the identical story. Those that get labored up about movies not casting actors who’ve the identical incapacity because the characters they play can be happy to notice that Lengthy identifies as neurodivergent in actual life, and isn’t solely a superb drummer as nicely however a fairly good actor. And the movie earns further right-on bonus factors for its heartening portrait of music therapists and the nice they’ll do for purchasers.