A dramatic movie that full of music following an ex-musician Frank Fisher who spends his most time now in managing his failing vinyl shop Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York. His daughter, Sam, will study in a college at the West Coast leaving him alone. Before she leaves, he offers her to play music with him for one last time. They make a song, Hearts Beat Loud, publishing it on Spotify. It has achieved much success.
The story is barrel-proof earnest sentiment, straight no chaser. How to keep the eyes from rolling in response? Well, it helps to have Nick Offerman at the center of things.
The filmmaking is as warm as the beats Sam programs, but for all the comforts in the storytelling, as well as new relationships for Frank and Sam, the movie reveals creativity as a way of saying goodbye.
Haley engagingly traces the arc of the father-daughter relationship while deftly avoiding sentimentality. And he elicits fine performances from a splendid cast.
Writer-director Brett Haley...coaxes a few weak laughs from the daddy-daughter role reversal, and stale, mushy drama from the cycling death of the girl's mother more than a decade earlier.
