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Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (2007)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:5
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill, Sing Now lacks empathetic characters and good tunes.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: SING NOW or Forever Hold Your Peace is an ensemble comedy about a group of men who sang together in an a cappella group in college. Fifteen years later they reunite to perform at a friend’s... SING NOW or Forever Hold Your Peace is an ensemble comedy about a group of men who sang together in an a cappella group in college. Fifteen years later they reunite to perform at a friend’s wedding. During a long weekend rehearsing together, the men reflect on how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases, regressed --since their college heyday. --© Strand Releasing [More]
Starring: David Alan Basche, Alexander Chaplin, Liz Stauber, Mark Feuerstein
Starring: David Alan Basche, Alexander Chaplin, Liz Stauber, Mark Feuerstein, Elizabeth Reaser, Molly Shannon, Reg Rogers
Director: Bruce Leddy
Director: Bruce Leddy
Screenwriter: Bruce Leddy
Producer: Bruce Leddy
Composer: Jeff Cardoni
Studio: Strand Releasing
Reviews for Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
If, when this gang lights into Our Love Is Here to Stay, you feel you've entered a very special chamber in Hell, rest assured you're not alone.
Another one of those horrendous high concept vanity projects that thinks it's way funnier than it actually is.
As for the singing, it's pleasant but unctuous and, frankly, made me squirm.
Take out all the elements of The Big Chill that made you like that film and keep the ones that annoyed you and you've got The Wedding Weekend.
Do we really need another movie with thirtysomethings who ache to re-live their college years? C'mon, guys, grow up!
Molly Shannon, as the raunchy wife of the group's most reserved member, is the best-known actor in the cast and its most obnoxious.
The cast veers from overly theatrical (Rogers) to amusing (Molly Shannon as Ted's wife Shannon, a woman who speaks her mind without thinking about the consequences) to spot on (Harbour, DeWitt, Basche, and several others).
Sing Now/Wedding Weekend has a marvelous personality to it that does wonders to alleviate the problem areas that plague the script.
The title is the least of the film's problems; far more significant is its failed attempt to make its protagonists endearing instead of obnoxious.
One desperately wishes they'd take their signature greeting literally: "Shut up!"
A Big Chill without the dynamite acting, Bruce Leddy's debut indie Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace takes the yuppie manifesto's whiny self-absorption and ties it to a sitcom sensibility.
The actors are well cast and effective. As a film, Sing Now, shot on location, is as attractive as its cast.
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