Song Sung Blue | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Knowingly melodramatic but also with its heart in the right place, and charming in many of the ways that most people know Diamond himself to be, even if it sometimes falls victim to some of the usual biopic tropes.

It stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, who is so sublime that we may even opt to forgive her for How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days and similar.

Rather than being sentimental, it’s a fundamentally good-natured film, paying homage, as Brewer says, to those who find their niche as entertainers beloved by those audiences who get the chance to find them and see what they can do.

Jackman and Hudson are a dream combo in a story that isn’t afraid to take us to dark and difficult junctures.

At its simplest, the movie is a flyover-state love story. You brace for condescension, but director Craig Brewer is better than that. Fun is had with the modest horizons of the semi-pro musician.