Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of 'Smile'

Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of 'Smile'

🎞️ Movie 109 min US
โ˜… 7.9 /10 2004

Plus: Brian Wilson Presents Smile Live!

This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow-up to the Beach Boys' cutting-edge mega-hit, Pet Sounds. The new album was to be called 'SMiLE'. SMiLE pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically, and was supposed to out-do the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper record. But Brian wasn't able to sell the project to his band-mates when they returned. The project was shelved and Wilson's well-documented decline into depression, drug abuse, recluseness, and obesity had begun. Thirty-odd years later, Wilson announced that in 2004, SMiLE would be performed live in its entirety in London. This film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light.

Cast

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David Anderle
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Hal Blaine
Self
Self
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges
Self
Self
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Self
Self
Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey
Self
Self
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Imbruglia
Self
Self
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Carol Kaye
Self
Self
George Martin
George Martin
Self
Self
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Self
Self
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Self
Self
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Composer
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James Mathers
Cinematographer