Sing (2016) - A musical dramedy starring Matthew McConaughey and John C. Reilly. The film is mostly known for the fact that while it was originally advertised and marketed as a light-hearted musical dramedy, it tackled shockingly serious subject matter, being a lot darker than most people anticipated it to be.
A depressed, failed businessman named Buster (Matthew McConaughey), who is currently crashing at his rich, yet unemployed friend Eddie (John C. Reilly)'s house, discovers that his distant father has passed away and left the Moon Theater, a historical theater in town, to his son in his will. In order to reopen it, they agree to host a fundraiser singing competition, and while Buster at first sees the competitors as just "easy money", as he puts it, he eventually grows to actually befriend them. The competitors include Johnny (a former convict who was violently abused by his father and grew up being forced to work in a notorious criminal gang), Rosita (a mother of tween octuplets who is currently going through a messy divorce after her husband cheated on her and abandoned her), Ash (a punk rocker with depression and anger issues after escaping her abusive boyfriend Lance), Meena (a shy and nervous teenager with PTSD), and Mike (an arrogant and greedy mobster who's currently, as he puts it, "technically on the run"). Buster, in what is somewhat a self-reflection of his own depressing past, decides that, together, they will all put on the best performance that the city has seen, in the hopes of helping them solve their problems and being able to happily move on with their lives.
While it was beloved by film critics, audiences were very divided on the film, as while it was ultimately very touching, many people claimed that they felt "misled" by the film's advertising, causing it to waver at the box office. Some people even threw protests at the cinemas that played the film, for it's "lack of family values". As of 2022 though, the controversy has died down for the most part (though some people still complain about it from time to time), and it is considered today to be one of the most successful films of the late 2010's.
(A/N: Basically, it's "Sing" if it wasn't animated, had humans instead of animals, and followed a much more serious storyline)
A depressed, failed businessman named Buster (Matthew McConaughey), who is currently crashing at his rich, yet unemployed friend Eddie (John C. Reilly)'s house, discovers that his distant father has passed away and left the Moon Theater, a historical theater in town, to his son in his will. In order to reopen it, they agree to host a fundraiser singing competition, and while Buster at first sees the competitors as just "easy money", as he puts it, he eventually grows to actually befriend them. The competitors include Johnny (a former convict who was violently abused by his father and grew up being forced to work in a notorious criminal gang), Rosita (a mother of tween octuplets who is currently going through a messy divorce after her husband cheated on her and abandoned her), Ash (a punk rocker with depression and anger issues after escaping her abusive boyfriend Lance), Meena (a shy and nervous teenager with PTSD), and Mike (an arrogant and greedy mobster who's currently, as he puts it, "technically on the run"). Buster, in what is somewhat a self-reflection of his own depressing past, decides that, together, they will all put on the best performance that the city has seen, in the hopes of helping them solve their problems and being able to happily move on with their lives.
While it was beloved by film critics, audiences were very divided on the film, as while it was ultimately very touching, many people claimed that they felt "misled" by the film's advertising, causing it to waver at the box office. Some people even threw protests at the cinemas that played the film, for it's "lack of family values". As of 2022 though, the controversy has died down for the most part (though some people still complain about it from time to time), and it is considered today to be one of the most successful films of the late 2010's.
(A/N: Basically, it's "Sing" if it wasn't animated, had humans instead of animals, and followed a much more serious storyline)
