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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
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.
- Original title
- Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Brian Wilson
Self
Hal Blaine
Self
Jeff Bridges
Self
Elvis Costello
Self
George Martin
Self
Van Dyke Parks
Self
Andrew Loog Oldham
Self
Tony Asher
Self
Danny Hutton
Self
Lou Adler
Self
Rob Reiner
Self
James Mathers
Director of Photography
John Scheinfeld
Producer
Brian Wilson
Music
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
Michael Jackson: Japan Tour '87 - Live in Yokohama
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025
SOUR Prom
Leonard Cohen: Songs from the Road
The Joy of ABBA
In France with Madonna
Jennifer Lopez: Let's Get Loud
ABBA Forever: A Celebration
I Can Only Imagine 2
Joan Armatrading: Me Myself I
Nena, vom Teenie-Idol zur Poplegende
Hugh Cornwell: Another Kind of Love
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Off the Record
Without Getting Killed or Caught
Sold Out
Parks and People: Dope
Marc Lavoine, le concert pop-symphonique à la Seine Musicale
Untitled Modest Mouse Documentary
Thriller 40
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Everybody’s Everything
The Greatest Night in Pop
Miss Americana
Adele One Night Only
Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated
Cobain: Montage of Heck
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Amy
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Bad 25
The Sound of 007
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Let's Get Lost
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Britney vs. Spears
Halftime
Whitney: Can I Be Me
Elton John: Never Too Late
Oct 5, 2004
