A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 18 nominations total
Ed Renninger
- Barman
- (as Edward Renninger)
Jennifer Li Jackson
- Mim
- (as Jennifer Li)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe apartment that is given to Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dave (Adam Levine) in New York City is the real house of Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo.
- GoofsWhen Dave Kohl wins the Music Gong and Gretta, Steve, and Dan watch the video on the laptop, the audience screams out "Levine".
- Crazy creditsThe end credits accompany Gretta and Dan negotiating the release of her album and releasing it, followed by Dan getting reports on the sales. This is followed by stills of scenes from the film with the musicians performing at their various locations, and celebrating at the end.
- SoundtracksStep You Can't Take Back
Written by John Carney, Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Performed by Keira Knightley
Featured review
Entertaining, creative and good characters
First, I love that you put the song, Thinking About Your Love, by Skipworth and Turner, in this movie! I've always loved their songs, beat and talent. Great choice. The original music was also quite good! Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightly were great, as well as his wife, Catherine Keener, who is always great, and the daughter, Hailee Steinfeld. I love the whole idea of the movie. I could imagine it was fun from the moment John Carney wrote it and set about making it in to a movie. The idea for an album is too clever. Toying with love interests also kept the movie intriguing as did the creative process that was always at work, throughout the movie. My number one judge of a good movie is did it hold my interest and this movie definitely did. I think another way of putting it would be, did the movie seem like it did not seem long, whatever the length of the movie, if it didn't seem long, then it worked, because you lost track of time by being drawn in to the story and characters. Great story and movie! I definitely recommend people go see it and hope it catches fire, because it's much better than most of the movies that are out this summer.
- summerhike
- Jul 10, 2014
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- Language
- Also known as
- Can a Song Save Your Life?
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,170,632
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $134,064
- Jun 29, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $105,539,577
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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