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In a dramatic atmosphere, this film takes after a dad, Frank whose wife was dead in a heartbreaking biking mischance. He invests his energy at his falling flat vinyl shop, Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York. He lives with his daughter, Sam, who is going to leave for the West Coast to study medication there. Her dad offered her to play music with him before taking off. They coordinate together making a tune named Hearts Beat Loud which has accomplished more than they anticipated.
The story is barrel-proof earnest sentiment, straight no chaser. How to keep the eyes from rolling in response? Well, it helps to have Nick Offerman at the center of things.
The filmmaking is as warm as the beats Sam programs, but for all the comforts in the storytelling, as well as new relationships for Frank and Sam, the movie reveals creativity as a way of saying goodbye.
Haley engagingly traces the arc of the father-daughter relationship while deftly avoiding sentimentality. And he elicits fine performances from a splendid cast.
Writer-director Brett Haley...coaxes a few weak laughs from the daddy-daughter role reversal, and stale, mushy drama from the cycling death of the girl's mother more than a decade earlier.