Music & Lyrics - 2007

He plays Alex, a singer and songwiter who was part of the pop group "Pop" - yeah - and the film starts with a videoclip very 80s style of the song 'pop goes my heart', one of their biggest hits :-) It's a nice video, fun to watch, really, just like the rest of the movie. I liked it, nothing too moving or too funny or too romantic, but a little bit of everything. There's Drew Barrimore too, playing Sophie, a wanna-be-writer who ended up working for her sister and one day even for Alex, to take care of his plants. No metaphor here, I assure you. He has living plants in his apartment, that is to say they were living plants until Sophie took care of them, now are just late-plants.
To give his career another chance, Alex has to write a new song. He writes the music, and needs someone to write the lyrics, of course. He works while Sophie waters the plant and she starts singing improvised words out loud. It would appear our Sophie is a born-lyricist who doesn't wanna hear about becoming one, who doesn't really think her talent is worth something, but nonetheless won't esitate to sing in the house of a man she doesn't know and who is actually working. My only explanation for this is that Sophie just won't shut up, ever. She's really not capable of shutting up, so when lyrics came into her head she had to get them out.
They start working together, but mostly they talk, about everything, especially themselves, well maybe especially about Sophie is more correct. They fall in love, no surprise there of course, but he won't admit it and she's upset about it, so she leaves him. So he writes a new song all on his own to win her back, and it's a very simple song, nothing that would win an oscar, but it's nice if you listen to the words. My favourite line is "dispite the fact that you killed all my plants" :lol:
It all ends with music and a lot of kisses :-)
Don't go away without looking at the credits: you'll have a chance to listen again to the big hit 'pop goes my heart' :lol and you'll read about what happens after to the characters.
It's nothing more than a nice simple film, but I watched it the other day for the second time and liked it as the first. Still nice, not bored of it. That's a good thing :-D
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