Music and Lyrics

Marc Lawrence

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Music and Lyrics

Synopsis

A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written lyrics and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days.

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Cast

Drew BarrymoreSophie Fisher
Hugh GrantAlex Fletcher
Toni TrucksTricia
Brad GarrettChris Riley
Haley BennettCora Corman
Brooke TansleyJanice Stern
Aasif MandviKhan
Zak OrthDavid Newbert
Scott PorterColin Thompson
Nick BaconPop Bass Player

Recommendations

75
ReelViews
Music and Lyrics is frequently appealing, often witty, and occasionally funny, but it's not going to convert skeptics and cynics into sentimentalists.
75
Chicago Tribune
Grant and Barrymore are very enjoyable together onscreen. Who would've guessed that Barrymore would turn into such a deft comedian?
70
The Hollywood Reporter
An agreeably loopy romantic comedy that bounces along effortlessly on the genuine chemistry of leads Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.
70
Variety
Grant carries the day as the fortysomething lad still living off his youth and just about getting away with it.
60
The New York Times
While there is not much chemistry between Mr. Grant and Ms. Barrymore, they are professional enough to work with the movie's conceit while sending flickers of idiosyncratic charm off the screen.
58
Christian Science Monitor
If writer-director Marc Lawrence had stuck with Alex's faded glory, Music and Lyrics could have been terrific. It could have been about something. Instead, he's confected a curdled valentine.
50
Village Voice
Music and Lyrics suggests that it's going to be about redemption, the second act in the life of a punchline, but it feels as though it were made to fit a date on a studio's release schedule. (Happy Valentine's Day!) Oh, well, at least the songs are catchy, and the two-tone video for "Pop Goes My Heart" is inspired.
50
TV Guide Magazine
What charm the movie has is almost entirely due to Grant and Barrymore -- the master of smarmily irresistible self-deprecation meets the sweetly vulnerable queen of awkward self-sabotage. While they have no romantic chemistry, they're certainly appealing.