Lacey and I went to see the new Adam Sandler/Don Cheadle drama on Friday night. I thought it looked pretty good, and it really was! It was quite sad, but vey well acted, and directed. What I really loved was the movie's use of music both in the storyline and in the soundtrack. They had some great sounding stuff, much of which I had not heard (like Bruce Springsteen's The River - I pretty much only know The Boss' popular stuff). I want to mention three of them in detail, 2 of which that were new to me. The first was the title to the movie, and comes from The Who's classic album Quadrophenia. It is an excellent song, and really captures the pain of the movie very well. It was also covered by Pearl Jam (a huge plus for me) in the credits, and the new version is really good. The second is Jackson Browne's acoustic live album, which I recently purchased. It features one of this country's greates songwriters on a stage by himself with an acoustic guitar and a piano. Not many people know a lot of the stuff Browne has written, including being a cowriter of Take it Easy by The Eagles. It is a fabulous album. Third, the opening song of the movie is a solo effort from Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills and Nash fame. It is extremely modern sounding (although written in 1972), and very, very good. Anyway, I highly recommend the music, but be wary of the movie, there is quite a bit of adult language. If you can handle that, it is definitely worth seeing, and is really the first I've seen or heard of to deal with post-9/11 trauma. Don Cheadle is, as usual excellent, and Adam Sandler continues to impress me with his serious side. Good stuff.
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