Rolling Stone reported in 1999 that Melinda hoped to organize a Wilson biopic which starred Jeff Bridges. While the project stagnated in development hell, the Beach Boys were eventually featured as the subject of two made-for-TV dramatizations: Summer Dreams: The Story of The Beach Boys (1990) which was widely derided for their historical inaccuracies and The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000) which Brian Wilson heavily criticized. It derived its title from Wilson's then-latest single, ' Love and Mercy' (1988), which appeared as the opening track to his debut solo album Brian Wilson. Production Pre-production Ī theatrical film adaptation of Wilson's life, titled Love and Mercy, was first proposed in 1988, and was planned to star William Hurt as Wilson and Richard Dreyfuss as Landy.

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A few years later Brian bumps into Ledbetter again while walking across an intersection, and they eventually marry. This leads to a restraining order being taken out to prevent Landy from seeing Brian, who begins a new and more appropriate course of treatment.

Eventually, she disengages from the relationship, but not before providing evidence to Brian's family that Landy has been made a beneficiary in his will, with help from Brian's housekeeper Gloria Ramos. Eugene Landy ( Paul Giamatti) has over Brian's life. She begins a relationship with him, but is disturbed by the controlling influence Brian's therapist and legal guardian Dr. In the 1980s, an older and heavily medicated Brian ( John Cusack) meets Melinda Ledbetter ( Elizabeth Banks), a Cadillac saleswoman. This timeline ends with Brian apathetic and detached from life. As Brian's bandmates record their next record without him, he learns that his father ( Bill Camp) has sold the publishing rights to the Beach Boys' songs without their knowledge. After the success of a new single, ' Good Vibrations', he fails to complete the album Smile, his would-be masterpiece. LSD is supplied to Brian by a coterie of hippie vagrants who praise him as a 'genius', and his mental health subsequently worsens. It is a critical hit, but sales are underwhelming. Despite resistance from some of his bandmates, Brian completes the Pet Sounds album. After recovering, Brian convinces his brothers Carl ( Brett Davern) and Dennis ( Kenny Wormald) to let him quit touring with the Beach Boys and instead focus on composition and studio work. The early timeline begins with a young Brian Wilson ( Paul Dano) suffering a panic attack on an airplane. The film alternates between the 1960s and the 1980s. A soundtrack album that includes the original score by Atticus Ross was released on August 14, 2015. It was nominated for two Golden Globes: Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (Paul Dano) and Best Original Song (' One Kind of Love'). It grossed $28.6 million over a $10 million budget and received positive reviews from critics, with Dano's performance garnering significant praise. Love and Mercy premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on Septem and was released by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on June 5, 2015. Ledbetter said that Landy's treatment of Wilson 'was even worse' than the film portrays.

Some minor inaccuracies were noted by critics, a number of which relate to the minimal coverage devoted to Wilson's family and collaborators. Conversely, Landy's son Evan felt that his father was unfairly portrayed. The cast and crew maintained that nothing in the film was a 'Hollywood' embellishment and that everything was intended to be as truthful as possible. He had little involvement with its making, although Ledbetter was relied upon for the 1980s portions. Wilson called the film 'very factual', albeit containing parts that 'weren't actually as factual'. The film alternates between Wilson's production of the album Pet Sounds (1966) and his treatment under Landy's 24-hour therapy program in the late 1980s. It stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the young and middle-aged Wilson, with Elizabeth Banks as his second wife Melinda Ledbetter and Paul Giamatti as his psychologist Dr. Love & Mercy is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Bill Pohlad about the Beach Boys' co-founder and leader Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s.

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