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"Tick, Tick ... Boom!"--film Review--now Playing I

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"Rent" was never a favorite show of mine but I understood how Jonathan Larson's show brought change to Broadway and also the legend of his death the night of its first performance off-Broadway. What happened before that night is what "tick,tick...BOOM" is about, a show Larson wrote the book, music and lyrics for--a story of a writer wants to 'make it' before he is 30 and he hears the clock ticking away.


This is a movie for anyone in their twenties who are dreaming of success in whatever chosen field they have picked whether it being in show business or any other business or whatever road they might take. It is a movie for anyone over thirty who made it or didn't.


I didn't really get into the film until it was about halfway through and then it completely took me over. I was back to being in my twenties, working as a waiter, writing books and plays, seeing myself as a successful writer. On the screen were words that I had thought, might even had said, both negative and positive. Now, 60 years later, I could laugh and/or cry, watching a guy about to be thirty seeing himself as a failure, thinking life ended at thirty.


While I don't remember a single song I remember listening to each one as a story being told. You can hear Jonathan Larson's voice telling you how and what he felt as he reached for success and, possibly, seeing failure.

I don't know how much of the screenplay are actually Larson's words and what Steven Levenson contributed but it runs smoothly covering all points of a creative mind. Director Lin-Manual Miranda, in many interviews, has credited Larson for making it possible for him to write and get "In The Heights" on Broadway to be followed by "Hamilton". In a way, here he is thanking Larson for that and in turn does fine work in his first turn as a director.



The acting is first rate from Andrew Garfield as Larson to one of the many cameos where if you blink you will miss Chita Rivera, Bernadette Peters, Joel Gray, Brian Stokes Mitchell to name a few, even Miranda as a cook! The cameos in no way distract from Judith Light as Larson's agent or Bradley Whitford as Stephen Sondheim, in a way Larson's mentor. Alexander Shipp as Susan, Larson's girlfriend and Vanessa Hudgens as Karessa, as a singer in the show within a show are highlights of the cast while Robin de Jesus as Larson's best friend is a standout.


I was so taken in by the second half of "tick, tick...BOOM" that all I remember is being awash in tears. THIS IS A MUST SEE MOVIE!

posted on Nov 21, 2021 5:35 PM ()

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