Three old friends who used to be part of a rock band reunite at the fourth member's funeral. They decide to band back together with the deceased's estranged son serving as the new fourth member.
Acting
Kim Yun-seok's gruff tenderness anchors every scene he's in.
Score
Original songs that actually slap — rare for fictional bands.
Direction
Lee Joon-ik finds poetry in cramped practice rooms.
Director
Lee Joon-ik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jang Keun-suk was 20 playing opposite actors twice his age, and apparently spent weeks learning bass despite being a trained pianist. The disrespect to bassists everywhere.
Lee Joon-ik made this between two historical epics (King and the Clown, The Happy Life's opposite energy), as if he needed to prove he could do small and sweaty too.
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