LOVE AND MERCY MOVIE REVIEW FREE

Now, regardless of how the financial numbers turn out, what sort of film is Love & Mercy? Read on and find out! Over the long haul, the film could do as low as $10 million domestic, or as high as maybe $20+ million, but we have to see how it opens and what sort of holds it has before we can really predict much about potential wider rollout or breakout success. A weaker turnout might lower the number to $1 million, whereas a stronger draw could push it toward $6+ million. While the 480+ theater count is relatively small compared to wide releases that typically hit 2,000-3,000 theaters these days, it's spread across most of the domestic marketplace and gives Love & Mercy more than an indie-circuit footprint, so a $2-5 million first weekend is likely, depending on just how big the turnout is between the two coasts. Melinda Ledbetter is the source of Wilson's hope to regain control and true happiness, and the film is as much about her journey and connection with Wilson as it is about him and his art.

LOVE AND MERCY MOVIE REVIEW FREE

Set partially in the 1960s and partially in the 1980s, the film jumps back and forth in time, to detail Wilson's rise to fame amid increasing mental illness, and his later life struggling to break free of treatment that left him isolated and unhappy as well as unhealthy in entirely new ways. Mercy, which tells the true story of legendary Beach Boys member Brian Wilson. This weekend brings us a film that transcends such trite and inaccurate portrayals, in the form of director Bill Pohlad's remarkable biopic Love & Such romanticized, excessively sentimental depictions of artists/geniuses with mental illness end up dehumanizing the characters and transforming their pain and suffering into a supposedly beautiful 'price' they pay in order for the world to benefit via artistic express of their illness. So many films attempt to portray mental illness and genius as if they are in a symbiotic relationship.

Love and mercy movie review