Tribute bands can change lives. Or at least that’s what the trailer for Song Sung Blue tells us. The film, based on a real Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline tribute band, stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson and feels like the kind of biopic you never thought would happen.
Can you call this movie a biopic? I don’t know but it is about musicians. They’re just covering the music of other musicians. I’m sure we could argue that Bubba Ho-Tep is somehow a biopic. But I digress. Song Sung Blue details the life of Mike and Claire Sardina, real life impersonators of Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline who called themselves Lightning and Thunder. Jackman plays Mike, a man who just wants to move people with his music.
