hah! finally i watch the movie!
it really amazing. i love them both, huhu!
A romantic comedy film.
what is very attract to me is the actors, the song and music.
it started when my friend asked me to hear the song (Way Back Into Love) and it sang by Hugh Grant. i don't know that he can sing.
then, i 'stole' the song from his MP3 player.
the song very nice, i hear it many times so then i asked him, is this is just song or film?
he said that, yes, its from film 'Music and lyrics'.
Wiki! Wiki! man, Drew Barrymore too! then, he gave me the movie to watch.because of my busy's....i can't watch anything. then came the holiday....
finally i can watch it!
the song is really sweet. i never hear the song pretty well.
and the songs is all original from the movie.
really respect the composer, best!
the song that Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) sing 'Don't Write Me Off' is very meaningful for them...
and the POP! song...haha, the 80's style is really cool! Hugh Grant looks younger! like in the old movies..
p/s: lazy to write down the synopsis, so i picked from wiki.
[from Wikipedia] Music and Lyrics wiki_link!
Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) enjoyed considerable fame and success in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the founding members of the band PoP! - however, after they disbanded, his partner Colin Thompson became a popular solo act, while Alex's own career nosedived. In recent years he has supported himself by reprising his old hits for middle-aged female fans at high school reunions, county fairs, and amusement parks, but even these minor opportunities are slowly drying up. Alex is given a chance at a comeback when teenaged pop diva Cora Corman (Bennet) commissions him to write a song called “Way Back Into Love” for her new CD which is on the verge of completion, leaving him only days to fulfill her request. However, Alex's forté is composing music; he always relied on Colin to supply the words, thus complicating matters. During an unsuccessful attempt at a collaboration, Alex discovers that Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), who waters his plants, has something of a gift for writing song lyrics. Sophie, a former creative writing student reeling from a disastrous romance with her former English professor, Sloan Cates (Scott), who has written a novel based on their relationship that cruelly depicts her as a talentless mimic, has little confidence in her talent and initially refuses, but Alex manages to cajole her into helping him by using a few quickly-chosen phrases she has given him as the basis for a song. Over the next days, Sophie and Alex continue to write “Way Back Into Love”, gradually growing closer, much to the delight of Sophie’s older sister Rhonda (Johnston), a fan of Alex’s from his PoP! days. Sophie and Alex struggle to meet the deadline and complete their song in this scene from Music and Lyrics Managing to barely meet the deadline Cora has set for the song’s delivery, Alex and Sophie are thrilled when she accepts it; however, at a celebratory dinner with Alex’s manager Chris (Garrett) Sophie is mortified to encounter Sloan. On Alex’s urging, she attempts to confront him but finds herself tongue-tied in his presence, and Alex’s own attempts to defend her honour only result in a scuffle that he comes out of worst. Nursing their respective wounds back at Alex’s apartment, Alex and Sophie end up consumating their relationship under Alex’s piano. Sophie is horrified when she discovers Cora plans to record a sexually-charged interpretation of "Way Back into Love," complete with a "steamy and sticky" Indian vibe she feels clashes with the romantic spirit of the song. She is determined to convince Cora to abandon the bizarre arrangement, only to find Alex vetoing her efforts for fear he will lose the opportunity to work with Cora and revive his career. In the ensuing argument, he admits Cora's version is awful but contends accepting it is the cost of doing business. Upset by Alex's willingness to demean his talent and hurt by his argument that she is refusing to live in the real world, Sophie leaves him. Sophie, intending to start a new life in Florida, reluctantly attends the opening of Cora's new tour at Madison Square Garden, at which Alex and Cora will debut “Way Back Into Love”. Upon hearing that Alex is singing a new song “written by Alex Fletcher”, Sophie is upset to believe that Alex is stealing credit for her work; however, the song Alex sings is a self-penned plea for Sophie to give their relationship another chance. Touched, Sophie finds Alex backstage, and he confesses he convinced Cora to drop the risqué version of "Way Back into Love" in an attempt to win Sophie back. He and Cora perform the tune as he and Sophie intended it to be sung, and the two songwriters embrace in the wings. The end of the movie reveals that they go on to become successful partners, both in songwriting and romance.