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Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace

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Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 5  Rotten:15 Average Rating: 4.3/10
 
Consensus: An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill. An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill, Sing Now lacks empathetic characters and good tunes. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 27, 2007 Limited
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SING NOW or Forever Hold Your Peace is an ensemble comedy about a group of men who sang together in an a cappella group in college. Fifteen years later they reunite to perform at a friend’s wedding. During a long weekend rehearsing together, the men reflect on how their lives have progressed --... [More]
SING NOW or Forever Hold Your Peace is an ensemble comedy about a group of men who sang together in an a cappella group in college. Fifteen years later they reunite to perform at a friend’s wedding. During a long weekend rehearsing together, the men reflect on how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases, regressed --since their college heyday. --© Strand Releasing [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: David Alan Basche, Alexander Chaplin, Liz Stauber, Mark Feuerstein, Elizabeth Reaser

Director: Bruce Leddy
Screenwriter: Bruce Leddy
Producer: Bruce Leddy
Composer: Jeff Cardoni

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The cast veers from overly theatrical (Rogers) to amusing (Molly Shannon as Ted's wife Shannon, a woman who speaks her mind without thinking about the consequences) to spot on (Harbour, DeWitt, Basche, and several others).

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07/14/07 11:27 AM
Ted Murphy
Hollywood.com
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06/26/07 03:15 AM
BBC
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Cute is as cute does. Not much more. Eh.

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05/14/07 06:01 AM
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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The cinematic equivalent of catchy soft-rock elevator music.

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04/30/07 07:49 AM
Eric Monder
Film Journal International
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The title is the least of the film's problems; far more significant is its failed attempt to make its protagonists endearing instead of obnoxious.

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04/28/07 04:22 AM
Tasha Robinson
Onion AV Club
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It's pretty insubstantial stuff.

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04/27/07 12:50 PM
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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As for the singing, it's pleasant but unctuous and, frankly, made me squirm.

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04/27/07 12:47 PM
Gary Goldstein
Reel.com
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One long sour note.

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04/27/07 12:46 PM
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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Molly Shannon, as the raunchy wife of the group's most reserved member, is the best-known actor in the cast and its most obnoxious.

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04/27/07 12:45 PM
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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The actors are well cast and effective. As a film, Sing Now, shot on location, is as attractive as its cast.

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04/27/07 12:34 PM
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Its dramatic freight lurches, and intriguing characters (a sex savant, an Indian human beat box) are sold short; a thinning of the ranks might have helped.

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04/27/07 12:17 PM
Andy Webster
New York Times
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Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace is a poor man's Big Chill, proving that navel gazing isn't the sole province of early baby boomers.

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04/27/07 12:14 PM
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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If, when this gang lights into Our Love Is Here to Stay, you feel you've entered a very special chamber in Hell, rest assured you're not alone.

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04/27/07 12:07 PM
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Do we really need another movie with thirtysomethings who ache to re-live their college years? C'mon, guys, grow up!

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04/27/07 05:38 AM
Phil Hall
Film Threat
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The latter may be the better option in this lame comedy.

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04/27/07 03:15 AM
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace has a marvelous personality to it that does wonders to alleviate the problem areas that plague the script.

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04/26/07 10:17 PM
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com
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A transparent Big Chill rip-off where all the soap opera's characters share the same toxic personality. Jumpin' Jehosaphat!

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04/26/07 08:14 PM
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze
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[An] uneven romantic comedy.

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04/24/07 05:13 PM
Jessica Grose
Village Voice
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A Big Chill without the dynamite acting, Bruce Leddy's debut indie Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace takes the yuppie manifesto's whiny self-absorption and ties it to a sitcom sensibility.

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04/24/07 05:10 PM
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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One desperately wishes they'd take their signature greeting literally: "Shut up!"

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04/24/07 10:48 AM
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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