Landy’s paranoid gaze, one wonders just how much fortitude Mr.
The movie creates a ratherĮffective suspense story: as Melinda gets closer and closer to Brian, under They are genuinely heart-rending and angering. Isolation, but when intercut with scenes of the younger Wilson shrinking at theĭisapprobation of the father-who beat him to deafness in one ear, but from whom Brian still craves approval-or theĬousin/bandmate who hectors him over jokey song lyrics and musical direction, His monstrous manipulations are bad enough in Giamatti, has by this point in time morphed from someone in service of Wilson Landy, played with terrifying intensity and smarm by Paul After telling her he wants the car in which they’ve stolenĪ few precious moments removed from the outside world, he scrawls on herīusiness card and leaves it on the steering wheel of the car. Salesperson Melinda ( Elizabeth Banks), who at first has no idea who the sweetlyĮccentric fellow is. Him, and a mini-entourage trailing the bodyguard), charms attractive young Into a Cadillac dealership (although we soon see he’s got a bodyguard trailing Eugene Landy, whoīecame such a part of Wilson’s life that he presumed to make himself a partner Of at least one bandmate who doesn’t get why Brian isn’t writing more hits, andĪn increasingly fragile psychic state that is not helped by an exposure to LSD.Ĭusack plays the Wilson of the late '80s, supposedly brought back from aĬomplete psychotic break by psychological miracle worker Dr. This amazing music in his head, and he manages to get quite a bit of it out,ĭespite the resentful sniping of his abusive ex-manager father, the hostility Musical genius of the Beach Boys who’s burning out on the road life. In the mid ‘60s, Paul Dano’s Wilson is the baby-faced The movie shuttles back and forth between two distinct You believe you might already know of Wilson’s life.
Story that’s hair-raisingly watchable and frequently moving, regardless of what With love, attention to detail, and empathetic imagination. Script by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner, and using two first-rateĪctors to play Wilson at two turning points in his life, lavishes his material But longtime producer Pohlad (“ Brokeback Mountain,” “12
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