Film Review – All Together Now

“Silver Linings Playbook” was the first Matthew Quick novel to enjoy a big screen adaptation, and the author found tremendous success with the movie, which did well at the box office and collected Oscar gold. Eight years later, “All Together Now” tries its luck with the Quick way, this time adapting his YA novel, “Sorta Like a Rock Star,” which examines a teenager with an unbreakable spirit facing tests to her heart and soul that forces her to rethink her positivity. It’s a much softer tale from the writer, who shares screenwriting duties with Marc Basch and Brett Haley, who also directs. The team manages to generate something wonderfully human with the work, and while the midsection teases an onslaught of unbearable melodrama, “All Together Now” remains in control of its tone and sensitivity, securing characters and feelings for this slice of feel-good cinema, earning its warmth along the way. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com