The best coming-of-age movies are about getting out, or about finding the thing that makes you feel everything, making life easier when the going gets tough. This movie is a great example of both, plus it’s got guitars, eyeliner, homemade music videos, school bullies and the massively wholesome belief that all your problems might just go away if only you could form a band. Which means your pain will be accompanied by a banging soundtrack.
Sing Street is streaming for free this month on Fawesome. Written and directed by John Carney, the film is set in 1980s Dublin and follows Conor, a teenager who starts a band to impress a mysterious girl named Raphina. We’ve all been there, surely. What begins as a romantic stunt ends up actually working and becoming more meaningful, giving Conor a creative outlet as his family life falls apart, and his future starts to feel uncertain.
The cast includes Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Vikings, CODA) as Conor, Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Politician) as Raphina, Jack Reynor (Midsommar, The Peripheral) as Brendan, Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders) as Robert, Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black, Outlander) as Penny, Mark McKenna (Wayne, One of Us Is Lying) as Eamon, Ben Carolan as Darren, and Ian Kenny (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Journey) as Barry.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Oh yes, this is one of the most beloved movies of the 2010s. It was a major critical success and a solid financial success, especially considering it was a small indie musical. Critically, it was adored. It holds a 95% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus calling it “a feel-good musical with huge heart and irresistible optimism,” and the reviews praising the cast’s performances and the songs. It was also nominated for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes. Financially, it did well too. The movie reportedly cost around $4 million to make and grossed about **$13.6 million worldwide. **
Boynton, while speaking to Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, gushed about the experience of working on the film, saying that the work done by Carney behind the scenes made it one of her best experiences. “[Writer-director John Carney] had created these characters so vividly, and it was semi-autobiographical,” she said. “I think I just turned up willing to be directed, not in a passive way, but in a way that really gave him all the authority and he really pushed back on that and gave all of us complete ownership of our characters, and I had never experienced it to that extent before”
Sing Street is streaming for free this month on Fawesome.
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