Chance meetings are everything. When three struggling singers accidentally (or is it fated?) meet, they have a chance to rekindle their fading dreams of making it in the music business. And isn’t there a little bit of faded dream in all of us?
Rich (Rich Price) is an English teacher by day and a guitar strummer by night. Just ask the old lady living upstairs who bangs on his ceiling. Greg (Greg Naughton) is a tree surgeon with a broken hear, just longing to star in a band. And then there’s Brian (Brian Chartrand) a hitchhiker who is part of the karma in the three connecting. Soon a band is formed and they’re off on a road trip to get to an LA gig on time. Think elements of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ with a musical agent, Granny (Richard Kind) at the end of the yellow brick road.
In real life Greg Naughton is not only an American actor, and writer & director of this film, but he’s a singer-songwriter and founding member of band ‘The Sweet Remains.’ This is a somewhat true story of their Burlington Vermont journey. How much fame they ever accomplished in real life isn’t clear, even in web searches, but if this turns out to be a film about a band who ‘makes it’ in real life for not making it in the film, then all the better.
It’s time for folk singers to make a comeback.
For fans British Steve Coogan’s road trip films or the tiny Irish hit called Once a decade back about a singer/songwriter love story, this is just the ticket, with a little Woodstock vibe in the mix. Dialog in the film take us back to simpler times. “Remember when you escaped to our car to listen to cassettes? Where nobody could call you on your cell phone?” Amen.