Louis Malle made enthralling cinema out of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn chatting over dinner, while Michael Lindsay-Hogg's spurious blab-fest offers two of the Fab Four strumming and chatting in a film that could have been called "My Dinner With a Beatle." Suppose that in 1976, while playing Madison Square Garden with his new group, Wings, Paul McCartney (Aidan Quin) had swallowed his pride and dropped in on John Lennon (Jared Harris)? In the years since the Beatles' split in 1970, Paul has been writing songs that Lennon dismisses as bubble gum music. Chronically paranoid, Lennon bristles at the mention of a reunion, but Paul is more interested in healing old woun...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
92 mins