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Allan you and I both saw the ballad of
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Island this is a kind of it's a romantic
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comedy in the end it's a romantic
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comedy look okay yes here's why it's
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about a gentleman on a remote island who
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got rich with uh by winning the lottery
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uh he wins it twice twice that's how
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lucky he is he he is mourning the loss
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of his wife five years ago and wants to
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celebrate by bringing his uh his Heroes
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who do folk music to his Island for a
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performance for one person him and he's
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paying them an exorbitant sum of money
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for a onetime performance for one person
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uh to soothe his heart on the 5-year
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anniversary of his wife's
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death the problem is this folk singing
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couple are no longer together they since
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ago no contact no contact and they have
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not been in contact with each other they
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island and uh Carrie Mulligan plays Neil
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Mortimer he is one half of the duo and
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Tom Baston plays Herb Maguire it's m muu
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Mortimer Maguire a folk singer uh and
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Herb went on to do a solo career uh n he
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retired and kind of got away from the
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business she has a new boyfriend
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Michael and Tim Tim key plays Charles
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who is the one inviting both of them now
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of course neither of them are aware
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they've been invited separately there's
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conflict where one is being paid more
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the island is kind of strange cell
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phones don't work nothing works it's one
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boat comes in every other day one boat
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yeah there's not like communication
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there's one little General Store uh run
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by a woman named Amanda played by Cen uh
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Clifford it's it's so it's Fish Out of
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Water for herb as he tries to get
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settled on the island um it's sort of a
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ghost romantic comedy in the sense that
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the romance part of it you don't see
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coming until the very end and it's not
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with who you think um I was really
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delighted with this film found it very
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fun um you know it's uh it's kind it
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wasn't it's the kind of movie that they
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used to make they don't make as much
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anymore the problem there are problems
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with it it's that the music I didn't
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great you know I'll speak to that they
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they're building up uh Mortimer and
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Maguire was it Maguire Mor I'm not sure
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but um the the building up these amazing
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songs that really affected Charles and
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songs are not that great I didn't think
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the songs were that great so it builds
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up to what will be the performance and
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will they perform together will they not
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um leave it at that will they get paid
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will they get paid what's going on but
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it's uh it's more the Journey of her and
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what he learns on the island and uh the
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healing of the heart of Charles um and
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kind of resolving between the the
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resolution between Mortimer and Maguire
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Carrie Mulligan Tom Baston their two
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characters um I thought it was it was I
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thought it was fine it was fine not
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great but it also reminds me like we
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used to get movies like this every week
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in the theater they were o this is just
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okay Alan what what did you think yeah I
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probably liked it a a little bit better
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than you did um you know what one of the
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things that appealed to me is the idea
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of you know you win the lottery twice
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what do you do you you live on a
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deserted island that has one General
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Store on it yeah to me I mean I wouldn't
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mind retiring that way uh I like this um
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you know it's a very simple tale you
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know we talked about death of unicorn
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not having a character Arc this movie
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has three character Arts arcs and I'm
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going to say it's not a romance it's a
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I will I just don't think it went that
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far um the middle character that you
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talked about the guy who won the lottery
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he's the one in the middle there uh
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Charles um you know yeah a little
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annoying but he becomes endearing by the
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end I mean that's what you call a
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character Arc you starts in one place
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he's different at the end uh same with
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herb herb and uh and Nell uh they all
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have character arcs and that's what good
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drama is um the music Al I'll speak to
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the music uh I the music's okay I mean
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it's folk it's folk music um here's the
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thing that you may not know because I I
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interviewed the director for this and
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it'll be on our interview Channel but
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the two gentlemen uh the ones playing
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herb and um herb and uh Charles they are
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a comedy duo from uh from Ireland and um
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they wrote and directed the movie uh and
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uh and they wrote the songs so what I
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appreci about this movie is a lot of
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times when you have these famous singers
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uh as characters um or legendary singers
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and uh and when it comes to the concert
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they go through this little Montage
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where you don't hear the songs they sing
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because they know they can't write songs
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uh this one you know they they chose to
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write the songs and perform them uh
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Carrie Mulligan has great harmonies um
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and they're okay they're folk music that
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that's what you got um but I think in
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the end it's a simple Tale of Three
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endearing characters uh that and and the
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ending is not as predictable as you
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might think it is yeah yeah I did like
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the end the ending brought it home for
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me so I'm giving it a recommend I'm
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giving it a recommend like but but like
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a six and a half or yeah I'm gonna give
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it a seven and a half definitely okay
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and um the movie is coming on limited
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release this weekend but when it's full
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release in on uh in two weeks uh the
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interview with the director will be
