Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.

Director:

Daniel Algrant

Writers:

Daniel Algrant, David Brendel

Stars:

Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Norbert Leo Butz

Cast

Credited cast:
Imogen Poots	...	Allie
Penn Badgley	...	Jeff Buckley
William Sadler	...	Lee Underwood
Norbert Leo Butz	...	Hal Wilner
Kate Nash	...	Carol
Alex Ziwak	...	Hells Angel
Isabelle McNally	...	Jane Goldstein
Ben Rosenfield	...	Tim Buckley
Frank Wood	...	Gary Lucas
Jessica Stone	...	Janine Nichols
Jadyn Douglas	...	Linda
Ilana Levine	...	Paula
Atilla Salih Yücer	...	Hotel Doorman
Stephen Tyrone Williams	...	Carter
Beth Katehis	...	Concert Goer Beth

Storyline

Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's eminent 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert in St. Ann's Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he learns to embrace all of his feelings toward the father who abandoned him - longing, anger, forgiveness, and love. Culminating a cathartic performance of his father's most famous songs, Jeff's debut stuns the audience and launches his career as one of the greatest young musicians of his time.

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Taglines:

The true story of the rise of Jeff Buckley.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 September 2013 (New Zealand)

Also Known As:

Pozdravi od Tima Buckleyja

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Archer Gray, From A to Z Productions, Smuggler

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Penn Badgley got into Jeff Buckley's music when he was seventeen.

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Goofs

On the train, Jeff tells Allie that when he was eight years old, he met his father Tim Buckley at the Troubadour [in Los Angeles]. The actual meeting took place in the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach.

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Connections

Featured in At the Movies: Episode #10.23 (2013)

User Reviews

Graceful Ghost

"Greetings from Tim Buckley" sidesteps the conventions of the musical biopic. It's a no-pressure, just-hanging-out movie. You can easily forget that what you're seeing is scripted or acted at all; the feeling is as of a friendly fly-on-the-wall documentary. The subject is Jeff Buckley, son of Tim Buckley, the prodigiously gifted hippie-era troubadour who died young. Jeff scarcely knew his father. The film covers a span of a week when Jeff (Penn Badgley) takes up an open-ended invitation to a memorial concert given by some of Tim's friends and associates. At this point in his life Jeff is noodling around with music himself, not quite seriously - and he agrees to perform one of Tim's songs at the concert. While Jeff mixes with the musicians, explores New York, - and caries on a week-long lunch-date flirtation with one of the show's producers (played by Imogen Poots) - he also digs into his past, or it digs into him. He's trying to read the pre-history of his own consciousness, and there are no records of that. Here glows the young Tim Buckley (Ben Rosenfield), in flashbacks or in old raw footage. Just a few flashes of edge and dazzle to suggest why he became a legend. Even when he's all beat out, his nimbus doesn't desert him - they slump beat together (and a beat nimbus is something to see); with the best will in the world, too weary to be as congenial as his record label would like. Is it the nimbus of an angel or a pop star? Whichever it really is, it's pressed into service as the other one too. Tim Buckley was only 28 when he died. So much still in the realm of possibility, unanswerable. The melancholy undertone of the film is how for Jeff, his father's absence is a presence. You may come to feel that this is a movie about a haunting, a daylight ghost story. It has to be elusive; what stays with you is the music.