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Hear My Song (1991)

Hear My Song poster
Directed by
Peter Chelsom
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United Kingdom, Ireland
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small-time Liverpool nightclub owner tries to revive his career by hiring a famous but reclusive Irish tenor. He tracks down the singer in Ireland and gets caught up in a series of comic mishaps.

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What happens

Hear My Song is a 1991 Irish-British comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom, who co-wrote the screenplay with Adrian Dunbar, based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 46th British Academy Film Awards in 1993. The film stars Ned Beatty (song voice Vernon Midgley, as Locke), Adrian Dunbar, Shirley Anne Field, Tara Fitzgerald, William Hootkins and David McCallum (as police officer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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