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A review of the recent movie Music and Lyrics explains how it is “…for those of us 40-somethings who lived through the past 25 years in utter denial…the film is a self-help book wrapped up in catchy pop music and lyrics.”

Contrary to the blogsphere, Music and Lyrics isn’t a chick-flick for teens, rather it’s for the teenagers of the 1980s who are now soundly into their 40s. At once both a retrospective and an introspection, it stars Hugh Grant as the former 80s pop star, Alex Fletcher and Drew Barrymore as his mercurial 15-year younger, unexpected co-lyricist, Sophie Fisher. An opportunity to write and perform a new pop ballad with teen queen of the day, Cora (Haley Bennett), turns the fortunes of both around. Writer / Director Marc Lawrence delivers, for those of us 40-somethings who lived the past 25 years in utter denial of what was going on and feeling powerless to do anything but hide behind the jobs we took to placate our parents and the lives we lived to satisfy the marketers, a film that is a self-help book wrapped up in catchy pop music and lyrics