Rotten
Zobel ultimately comes down on the side of the suckers, whose need to make music -- even bad music -- gives them an unimpeachable dignity
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Great World of Sound
They're coming to make you a star!
2007 · 1h 46m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Craig Zobel
Overview
When a man answers an ad to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered artists only to discover his new job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A confident, sure-handed exercise focusing on the American Dream, turned nightmare.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Anyone who has enjoyed laughing at the bad singers auditioning on American Idol, consider the independent film Great World of Sound your penance.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
The laughs flow.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
If there's justice it should move plenty of viewers-those aching to see a recognizable conscience behind our fashionable American idolatry.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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