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Pope Dreams (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless nineteen-year old boy, Andy Venable, who works for his hard-case dad in a store warehouse during the day and plays drums in a loud heavy-metal band at night. His only clear goal at the moment is to get his sick mother, a devout Catholic, to meet the Pope before she dies. While he's busy with that, he falls for a girl who's totally out of his league and gets discovered by two Broadway producers for a musical talent that just might be his true calling. Andy's a dreamer. But dreaming is easy. It's reality that's hard.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, serious
Plot:
terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, family relations, parents and children, young lovers, coming of age, teenage life, human nature, unfulfillment, mother son relationship, death, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, clergy, obsessive quest, dealing with death, rising to stardom, teenager, catholic, father son relationship, wrestler
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles
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