The Beach Boys: An American Family (TV 2000)

This movie re-creates the life stories of the members of the rock group "The Beach Boys. The film focuses primarily on the Wilson brothers and their parents, but also includes stories about... See full summary »

Director:

Jeff Bleckner

Writer:

Kirk Ellis

Stars:

Kevin Dunn, Jessica Shannon, Frederick Weller

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kevin Dunn	...	Murry Wilson
Jessica Shannon	...	Concert Girl
Frederick Weller	...	Brian Wilson
Alley Mills	...	Audree Wilson
Nick Stabile	...	Dennis Wilson
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Pamela
Ryan Northcott	...	Carl Wilson
Matt Letscher	...	Mike Love
Ned Vaughn	...	Al Jardine
Dublin James	...	Dave Marks
Jesse Caron	...	Bruce Johnston
Amy Van Horne	...	Marilyn Rovell
Jad Mager	...	Nik Venet
Eric Matheny	...	Chuck Britz
Harris Laskawy	...	Voyle Gilmore

Storyline

This movie re-creates the life stories of the members of the rock group "The Beach Boys. The film focuses primarily on the Wilson brothers and their parents, but also includes stories about the rest of members of the band. A two-part television movie special.

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Plot Keywords:

physical abuse | nervous breakdown | drugs

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 February 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Beach Boys: La famille

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bruin Grip Services, Columbia TriStar Television, Storyline Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

240 min 240 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During scenes in which Brian Wilson is demoing "I Get Around" and "In My Room," the real Brian Wilson contributes the vocal, recorded specifically for this movie. However, an uncredited Jeffrey Foskett, a member of Brian Wilson's touring band, provides the high notes during the "In My Room" demo.

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Goofs

During a show which takes place sometime before 1963, the Wilson brothers' mom takes pictures of them, using a 110-format Instamatic camera. The 110 film format was invented a few years later than 1963.

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Quotes

Brian Wilson: You're a clubber, Denny. You're not an artist.

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Soundtracks

"ADD SOME MUSIC TO YOUR DAY"

User Reviews

accurate and entertaining

This was a very good movie, whether you are a big Beach Boys fan or not. However, if your not a big fan, you will be after seeing this movie. The movie was a lot easier to put together and understand if you happen to have read the book Heroes and Villains. You can see where a few things were switched around here and there, but nothing that really takes away from the truthfulness of these great musicians life as The Beach Boys. Absolutely worth the time to watch. The movie was 3.5 hours and it didn't really cover anything past about 1969. Thats the problem when you have a band that entertained America and Europe for 38 years. There isn't enough film to show it all. I would like to see a movie do the years from 1970 to about 1990, covering both Carl and Dennis' death. A very sad and tragic thing;however, remember, we still have Brian, Mike, Bruce, Al and even co-founder David ,that only appeared on the first 5 albums covering 61-63. Their talking about touring again, lets make it happen. Send comments to Brians web site. Think about it, the Beach Boys live in 2006. Wouldn't it be nice!