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Great World of Sound
Directed by
Craig Zobel
R
2007
1h 46m
Comedy
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Drama
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6.7
81%
72%
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When a man answers an advertisement to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered musicians, only to discover his new job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Cast of Great World of Sound
Pat Healy
Martin
Kene Holliday
Clarence
John Baker
Shank
Robert Longstreet
Layton
Libertad Green
Waitress
Rebecca Mader
Pam
Tricia Paoluccio
Gloria
Collette Wolfe
Airline employee
Craig Zobel
Director / Writer / Producer
George Smith
Writer
David Gordon Green
Producer
Melissa Palmer
Producer
Richard A. Wright
Producer
Great World of Sound Ratings & Reviews
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Craig Zobel's soul-crushing docudrama slums in the real rags-to-rags tragedy of the lowest rung of the music industry.
Washington Times
Christian Toto
Great World of Sound is a corrosive antidote to "American Idol."
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
The film's agenda becomes clear so early that the middle hour or so seems to be marking time until we get to the end.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Zobel ultimately comes down on the side of the suckers, whose need to make music -- even bad music -- gives them an unimpeachable dignity
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A confident, sure-handed exercise focusing on the American Dream, turned nightmare.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Anyone who has enjoyed laughing at the bad singers auditioning on American Idol, consider the independent film Great World of Sound your penance.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The laughs flow.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
A quiet, clever and sometimes moving film about an unusual grifting lifestyle.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
...an involving, offbeat and truly unusual American independent film.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
Zobel's directorial debut is as bleak a look at working as Miller or Mamet's efforts, but what's most striking about this bittersweet drama is its absence of indignant rage.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Much of the movie is spot-on.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Nimble performers...lift Great World of Sound above its central gimmick, turning it into a subtle, funny and depressing observation of unspoken race and class tensions.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The film is a confidently assured dark comedy I couldn't help but come away feeling good about, and even if the pieces are more interesting than the whole as nicely as it all turns out I can't really say I mind as much here as I probably normally do.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Great World of Sound is about the chicanery that feeds off pinched wallets, but it's also a metaphorical satire of a music business so busy scavenging for sales it has forgotten its roots.
Film Journal International
Katey Rich
Has its minor charms, but it never gets at the deeper, more interesting side of the fascinating world in which it's set.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
A movie about conscience that flatly refuses the catharsis and redemption a mainstream feature would demand, Great World of Sound is a dirty gem, shining despite the modesty of its production.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
[Director] Zobel has an Altmanesque ear for the the way people talk, and he evokes Altman's loose style and cynical sensibility. The film deftly suggests that the tension between being famous and being broke can be illogical and very cruel.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
In terms of humor, the film proves frustratingly top-heavy.
Variety
Scott Foundas
Low-key but enormously charming pic.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Morally ambiguous, subtly crafted, resolutely free of clich and made with almost no money, The Great World of Sound is under-the-radar independent filmmaking in the Jarmusch-Cassavetes mode, both noble and ruthless in spirit.
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