Greetings from Tim Buckley

Name: Greetings from Tim Buckley
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013-09-05
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Norbert Leo Butz

20122012
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 39min

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

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Penn Badgley in Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Imogen Poots in Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots in Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Daniel Algrant, Penn Badgley, and Frank Bello at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Penn Badgley at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

John Hart at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Daniel Algrant, Penn Badgley, Geoffrey Gilmore, and Imogen Poots at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Geoffrey Gilmore at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots at an event for Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012)

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. —Production Weekly

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Taglines
- The true story of the rise of Jeff Buckley.
Genre
- Drama
Certificate
- Not Rated
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Trivia
No lip-syncing for Penn Badgley who sang live throughout the entire film.

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.

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

Top review

6/10

Works as a human-interest drama even if you've never heard of the Buckleys

Before watching 'Greetings from Tim Buckley' I'd never heard of either Tim Buckley (a folk singer in the 1960/70s) nor his son Jeff (a folk rock singer in the 1990s), so approached the film with no pre-conceptions, treating it almost as a work of fiction (with apologies to the Buckleys' fans). The plot (based, of course, on real-life events) surrounds rehearsals for a Tim tribute concert, at which his son Jeff is due to perform. It provides lots of human-interest drama, as Jeff reacts to other people's admiration of a father he barely knew. I cannot judge how accurate the portrayals of the two Buckleys are, but certainly, after ten minutes of Penn Badgley's nervy, twitchy performance as Jeff I was ready to give him a jolly good slapping. But the film did not seem to last as long as its 99 minute running time; always a good sign!

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