Music and Lyrics
A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he’s never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
- Director: Marc Lawrence
- Genre: Comedy / Music / Romance
- Tagline: Share the music with someone you love
- Runtime: 105 minutes
Cast
Hugh Grant : Alex Fletcher
Scott Porter : Colin Thompson
Nick Bacon : Pop Bass Player
Andrew W. Blakemore : Pop Guitar Player (as Andrew Wyatt Blakemore)
Dan McMillan : Pop Drummer
Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) enjoyed considerable fame and success in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the founding members of the band PoP! – however, after they disbanded, his songwriting partner Colin Thompson became a popular solo act, while Alex’s own career nosedived. In recent years he has supported himself by reprising his old hits for middle-aged female fans at high school reunions, county fairs, and amusement parks, but even these minor opportunities are slowly drying up. Alex is given a chance at a comeback when teenaged pop diva Cora Corman (Haley Bennett) commissions him to write a song called “A Way Back Into Love” for her new CD which is on the verge of completion, leaving him only days to fulfill her request. However, Alex’s forté is composing music; he always relied on Colin to supply the words, thus complicating matters.
During an unsuccessful attempt at a collaboration, Alex discovers that Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), who waters his plants, has something of a gift for writing song lyrics. Sophie, a former creative writing student reeling from a disastrous romance with her former English professor, Sloan Cates (Scott), who has written a novel based on their relationship that cruelly depicts her as a talentless mimic, has little confidence in her talent and initially refuses. But Alex manages to cajole her into helping him by using a few quickly-chosen phrases she has given him as the basis for a song. Over the next days, Sophie and Alex continue to write “A Way Back Into Love”, gradually growing closer, much to the delight of Sophie’s older sister Rhonda (Kristen Johnston), a fan of Alex’s from his PoP! days.
Managing to barely meet the deadline Cora has set for the song’s delivery, Alex and Sophie are thrilled when she accepts it; however, at a celebratory dinner with Alex’s manager Chris (Brad Garrett) Sophie is mortified to encounter Sloan. On Alex’s urging, she attempts to confront him but finds herself tongue-tied in his presence, and Alex’s own attempts to defend her honor only result in a scuffle that he comes out of worst. Nursing their respective wounds back at Alex’s apartment, Alex and Sophie end up sleeping together under Alex’s piano.Read more
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