Synopsis
A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.
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Cast
- Penn BadgleyJeff Buckley
- Imogen PootsAllie
- Norbert Leo ButzHal Wilner
- Ben RosenfieldTim Buckley
- Frank WoodGary Lucas
- William SadlerLee Underwood
- Isabelle McNallyJane Goldstein
- Jessica StoneJanine Nichols
- Kate NashCarol
- Jadyn DouglasLinda
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Penn Badgley saunters around with an air of spooky self-possession, and he does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail. - 75
The A.V. Club
Algrant’s film — which he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel — is really about Tim Buckley’s son, Jeff, an equally adventurous rocker whose fame ultimately eclipsed his father’s, though he too died young. - 75
Rolling Stone
Badgley, best known for playing "lonely boy" Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, is a revelation. He wears his role like a second skin. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Dan Algrant’s lyrical recreation of a father-son relationship seen over time, through memory and music, has a sense of urgent originality that works even apart from its great Tim Buckley score. - 60
Village Voice
The film articulates this dimension of the story, regrettably, in little more than biopic platitudes and daddy-issue clichés...But it's not all bad. Badgley delivers a nuanced performance of such ferocity he almost singlehandedly makes a conventional film seem loose and improvisatory. - 58
The Playlist
There is no doubt that Greetings From Tim Buckley is respectful, and thanks to Badgley and Rosenfield, does justice to both singers. But the film never quite connects father and son as each sharing the common bond of extraordinary talent or even similar personal woes. - 50
Variety
The result is at once skillfully observed and a bit so-what. - 50
Slant Magazine
Despite the counter-culture subjects at its core, Daniel Algrant's film possesses a put-upon hipness that cannot mask its disarming dorkiness.
