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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:24

Fresh:5

Rotten:19

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill, Sing Now lacks empathetic characters and good tunes.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: 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... 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 [More]

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

Starring: David Alan Basche, Alexander Chaplin, Liz Stauber, Mark Feuerstein, Elizabeth Reaser, Molly Shannon, Reg Rogers

Director: Bruce Leddy

Director: Bruce Leddy
Screenwriter: Bruce Leddy
Producer: Bruce Leddy
Composer: Jeff Cardoni
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/26/07
BBC

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
Andy Webster
Andy Webster
New York Times

Take out all the elements of The Big Chill that made you like that film and keep the ones that annoyed you and you've got The Wedding Weekend.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/15/08
Bill Goodykoontz
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic

Sing Now/Wedding Weekend has a marvelous personality to it that does wonders to alleviate the problem areas that plague the script.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
04/26/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

Another one of those horrendous high concept vanity projects that thinks it's way funnier than it actually is.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
04/24/07
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Cute is as cute does. Not much more. Eh.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
05/14/07
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

The cinematic equivalent of catchy soft-rock elevator music.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
04/30/07
Eric Monder
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

As for the singing, it's pleasant but unctuous and, frankly, made me squirm.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
04/27/07
Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein
Reel.com

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/07
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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It’s an inoffensive and unchallenging little film.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
06/06/08
Jason Heck
Jason Heck
Kansas City Star

[An] uneven romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
04/24/07
Jessica Grose
Jessica Grose
Village Voice

A transparent Big Chill rip-off where all the soap opera's characters share the same toxic personality. Jumpin' Jehosaphat!

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
04/26/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

It's pretty insubstantial stuff.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/27/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The actors are well cast and effective. As a film, Sing Now, shot on location, is as attractive as its cast.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
04/27/07
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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The latter may be the better option in this lame comedy.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
04/27/07
Kirk Honeycutt
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Hollywood Reporter
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Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/18/08
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

One desperately wishes they'd take their signature greeting literally: "Shut up!"

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
04/24/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

Do we really need another movie with thirtysomethings who ache to re-live their college years? C'mon, guys, grow up!

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
04/27/07
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/24/07
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
 
 
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