Love & Mercy (film)
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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 1980
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16 mm film shot by an Arri 16SR3 camera was used to give the movie's 1960s setting a period-authentic feel
Wilson (pictured in 2012) stated after watching the film: "I thought the actors that portrayed me were well casted ... but they laid pretty heavy on the dark parts of my life, you know? So the movie overall was a bad experience for me to see, but there were good parts."
In the February 2016 issue of Rolling Stone, Mike Love said that he was denied an advance screening of the film, adding: "I don't really need to see it. I've lived it."
Paul Dano
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Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and filmmaker. His work includes both independent film and blockbusters, and his accolades include nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe
Love & Mercy (film)
…by Bill Pohlad about the Beach Boys' co-founder and leader Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s. It stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the young and older Wilson, respectively, with Elizabeth Banks as his second wife Melinda Ledbetter and Paul Giamatti as his…
Dano in 2024
Dano in 2007
Dano at the Love & Mercy premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Dano at 2025 Venice Film Festival