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THIS WEEK AT THE MOVIES

 

Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Written and Directed
by Bruce Leddy

Rating: (2.7)
ERIC'S STAR RATINGS

Review:
Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your PeaceIn hollywoodese, this would be described as “The Big Chill Musical.” A cute comedy, this is mostly about the midlife crisis we all go through sometime between 21 and 60.

When they were in college back in the early '90s, the group in question were an a cappella group and still sing on occasion. The person with the first midlife crisis we learn about is David(David Harbour), a computer techie, who doesn't want fatherhood because he's afraid that he's getting old and hasn't done all that he's wanted to by this point in his life, a point of view his wife(Rosemarie DeWitt) isn't too tolerant of. Meanwhile, we learn that the rest of the group isn't doing much better, Will(Samrat Chakrabarti) is working as a gopher in the recording industry while he fails to get acting parts beyond “second terrorist on the right; Richard(Reg Rogers) is newly divorced and hasn't gotten laid in almost five hundred days; Ted's(Alexander Chaplin) marriage to Trish(Molly Shannon) isn't going all that well either, and things are about to get worse when he's fired after many years loyal service. Spooner(Chris Bowers), on the other hand, is doing really well doing whatever it is he does, and Steven(David Alan Basche) produces reality shows on the left coast.

The last member of the group, Greg(Mark Feuerstein), is going to get married in a couple of weeks and wants the gang to get back together and serenade his bride and him. 

The film is a light comedy, which means nothing all that much happens. Sure there's personal growth and everyone winds up living happily ever after, but then again, what else do we want from a trifle like this? Cute is as cute does. Not much more. Eh.


Eric Lurio

 

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