OMG! This is hilarious/appalling if we are made to believe it was Mike (narcissist) LOVE's idea to form the band and Brian HAD to be talked/pushed into it.......it was Brian talking to Al first about getting together with Carl and his cousin Mike.......what a load this is in its first 9 mins.
Please, does anybody could post the subtitles ??? I speak spanish and my listening is poor, I love the Beach Boys and it's frustrate don't understand the conversations..thanks.
The first half of this movie is actually decent despite some glowing errors but the second half was a disaster and an embarrasment especailly the "Smile" section where they played on the myth that Brian destroyed the tapes.A lot of good that did,especailly now.I will admit this is better than "Summer Dreams' but not by much.They both suck if you aswk me and as far a bipo pics are concerned,the Beach boys have yet to be done justice
Dennis Actually Fought Murray Back Rather Than Him Taking Beating Like He Does Around 6:00! Yes Murray Was A Prick, If It's Any Consolation To Him Hitting Brian In The Ear And Making Him Go Deaf, Brian Threw Murray Against A Wall When He Fired Him In 1964.
John Stamos is in very close cahoots with Mike Love. John could've easily taken some "suggestions" from Mike Love during production, and even if that wasn't the case, it really might as well be the case, given how the end result turned out.
If you don't believe me, watch the Endless Harmony documentary. A lot of Mike Love's lines in this movie are taken word-for-word from things the actual Mike Love said in the documentary. It's uncanny.
@coolsweetgroovy and therefore he should know better as he was/is a beach boy and should have more respect than this because this is little more than a revisionist piece of shit.The "Smile"section in particular is pathetic
Watch summer dream's The story of the beach boy's. It is a better movie and they get it rite. the whole story is true. It's worth watchin and more truthfull.
@brad1970dd I think this version is way better than summer dreams. There were just too many gaps in that version, starting with the fact they never focused on al going to school and showing david marks a key member of the group on their first couple albums. And they just skipped from brians turmoil in the la\te 60s to the 80s leaving out the part where marilyn left him
This movie was made in 2000 so it's not like it's a classic. And that's good because alot of things in the movie are false. The music is the only good thing about it. At least they didn't that fuck up.
LOL as if getting hot girls was that easy. it probably was that easy back in the day. :'( at least two hot girls I know waved at me from their car today… that's as good as it gets.
david marks is supposed to be like 13. the guy playing him looks like he's 30. what in the ass were the casting directors thinking? i did like kevin dunn as murray though
Some of the worse casting and acting I have seen, but like a train wreck I just had to watch because I am fascinated by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Love the music but this film stinks!
Hawthorne actually appeared to be a nice suburb, pre "South Central" days. Being from Northern California, I have met a few people who relocated up here, that lived in Bell Gardens, Hawaiian Gardens, Bellflower, Norwalk, Hawthorne, etc... that described a middle class, middle American neighborhood that was a great place to raise children. I don't doubt that, but I have only known these towns to be riddled with crime and gangs now, shame.
@aftershock71 That is just like saying South Philly or Long Island are riddled with crime "now"- 60 years ago the entire USA was the middle class America- I grew up on 188th Place just down from the Wilsons- I went to Hawthorne High- that place is of a by-gone era, I was Blessed to be Born in such a time & place -God Bless Brian
@rentatrip1 I agree with you. I was just commenting on what a shame it is, that this once idylic suburban area...went down hill with the gang problems. In fact, I read that the monument erected in front of the Wilson's now torn down home...has been vandalized with graffiti...BTW, I too am a big fan of Brian's.
When I first saw Brian from the side at the piano I thought he looked just like him...he's a little too skinny to look like Brian though...and Brian had a fuller face. Murry's voice isn't raspy enough either
I'd like the beach boys a lot and i was waiting watch this film for years ..the problem is I speak spanish ..and my english is not good ...could you write the spells please ?? i mean subtitles for the film please ..or maybe you can send to me to my mail...thanks
This movie is a bastardization of The Beach Boys story. It's as one person once said on a Beach Boys forum "a monstrously vile, twisted perversion of the truth...It's Mike's version of what happened, told with a huge smirk at all the so-called 'Brian freaks' he so deeply disdains."
Mike Love can't surf...Dennis wilson was the only beach boy that could actually surf and he the only one that loved the ocean so much as to be buried at sea after his death in 1983!
this was a million times better den "summer days" but one thing i did like about "summer days" was dat it was cheap looking so it gave the whole picture an eerie feeling :)
Why in the hell is Mike Love depicted as a surfer? I thought Dennis was the only one who could surf? I think I already know the answer to this, but someone inform me.
@FuckingStanz He wasn't/isn't, but this miniseries favors him more than it favors Brian. Think most BB fans agree that the man was, and still is, a dick.
OMG! This is hilarious/appalling if we are made to believe it was Mike (narcissist) LOVE's idea to form the band and Brian HAD to be talked/pushed into it.......it was Brian talking to Al first about getting together with Carl and his cousin Mike.......what a load this is in its first 9 mins.
CAgirl707 4 days ago
Carls actor looks more like brian than brians actor does.
scarface12347 4 days ago
Please, does anybody could post the subtitles ??? I speak spanish and my listening is poor, I love the Beach Boys and it's frustrate don't understand the conversations..thanks.
psychodied 6 days ago
Thank You so much.
A french Beach Boys Fan !
88sublunaire 1 month ago
The first half of this movie is actually decent despite some glowing errors but the second half was a disaster and an embarrasment especailly the "Smile" section where they played on the myth that Brian destroyed the tapes.A lot of good that did,especailly now.I will admit this is better than "Summer Dreams' but not by much.They both suck if you aswk me and as far a bipo pics are concerned,the Beach boys have yet to be done justice
johnboymac2000 2 months ago
I'm pretty sure Mike wouldn't be surfing with Dennis if Dennis was the only one that could surf...but it's still a good movie so far
MegaVideogirl99 2 months ago
Dennis Actually Fought Murray Back Rather Than Him Taking Beating Like He Does Around 6:00! Yes Murray Was A Prick, If It's Any Consolation To Him Hitting Brian In The Ear And Making Him Go Deaf, Brian Threw Murray Against A Wall When He Fired Him In 1964.
centipeeds4always 2 months ago
Brain looks like Steve Malkumus of Pavement
HRDixie11 2 months ago
Dennis is the only one who actually surfed lol
purgatoryrain 3 months ago
the name of this movie is actually 'an american band'
SabrinaIannuzzi 3 months ago
@SabrinaIannuzzi Nope.American band was a different movie all toghether.It came out in 1984
johnboymac2000 2 months ago
@SabrinaIannuzzi An American band is a completley different movie all together and actually has the REAL Beach boys making appearnaces in it
johnboymac2000 5 days ago
Unrealistic or not, I still think this is a very good movie
TheSnickers 3 months ago
whats the name of the song which starts at 3:11?
please help, thank you
Clevelandbrowns58 6 months ago
It's the mom from the Wonder Years!
ascrodin 6 months ago
@noirkitten DUDE! Don't give em' any ideas!! lmao!
popdisasster 7 months ago
what was the song at 3:15
Warshadow4 7 months ago
To all the people saying that this movie is all Mike Love Mike Love had nothing to do with this movie this was produced by John Stamos
coolsweetgroovy 9 months ago
@coolsweetgroovy
John Stamos is in very close cahoots with Mike Love. John could've easily taken some "suggestions" from Mike Love during production, and even if that wasn't the case, it really might as well be the case, given how the end result turned out.
AnAmericanFamily 7 months ago
@AnAmericanFamily Yeah you're probably right
coolsweetgroovy 7 months ago
@coolsweetgroovy
If you don't believe me, watch the Endless Harmony documentary. A lot of Mike Love's lines in this movie are taken word-for-word from things the actual Mike Love said in the documentary. It's uncanny.
AnAmericanFamily 7 months ago
@AnAmericanFamily Yikes I'll have to watch it
coolsweetgroovy 7 months ago
@coolsweetgroovy and therefore he should know better as he was/is a beach boy and should have more respect than this because this is little more than a revisionist piece of shit.The "Smile"section in particular is pathetic
johnboymac2000 2 months ago
@johnboymac2000 Thanks
coolsweetgroovy 2 months ago
Hey it's the mom from the Wonder Years!!!
ShortySOM 9 months ago
shittiest movie ever, but probably the best
bwsava 10 months ago
Watch summer dream's The story of the beach boy's. It is a better movie and they get it rite. the whole story is true. It's worth watchin and more truthfull.
brad1970dd 10 months ago
@brad1970dd
You must be joking.
AnAmericanFamily 10 months ago 7
@brad1970dd No i'm not lol. you should check the other movie out it's good it's just that the facts are in the other movie they held out on this one.
brad1970dd 10 months ago
@brad1970dd Specially without Good Vibrations and without saying the name Pet Sounds n the whole movie
Javier23gol 9 months ago
@brad1970dd I think this version is way better than summer dreams. There were just too many gaps in that version, starting with the fact they never focused on al going to school and showing david marks a key member of the group on their first couple albums. And they just skipped from brians turmoil in the la\te 60s to the 80s leaving out the part where marilyn left him
avonsuncoast 6 months ago
@brad1970dd You gotta be kidding.Its worse than 3 of these put together
johnboymac2000 2 months ago
This movie was made in 2000 so it's not like it's a classic. And that's good because alot of things in the movie are false. The music is the only good thing about it. At least they didn't that fuck up.
brad1970dd 10 months ago
Dennis wilson was the only one of the beach boys that surfed mike love didn't. So that part is false.
brad1970dd 10 months ago
ah, back when abc actually had an awesome title screen.
MrGregorychant 10 months ago
The only good part of this film is the sweet car opening to "Wouldn't It be Nice", the rest of the film is mediocre
TAFKASYFY 10 months ago
Kind of reminds you of the Wonder Years
harpist16 10 months ago
When ABC had tv movies! I remember watching this
harpist16 10 months ago
ponganles subtitulos
Mizar33A 11 months ago
Carl actor looks like real Brian. Carl wasn't so skinny ...
Brian actor only looks like real Brian when watched from left/right side.But from front, he looks like retard.
TheArchTV 11 months ago
@TheArchTV
you cant get everyone to look exact and need the actors to do the parts...they did a relatively good job.
bcrocker33 10 months ago
The real Dennis was a hell of a lot better looking!
beatlegirl95 11 months ago 5
Man, That actor scares me. He looks like the real Milke Love.
Javier23gol 11 months ago
LOL as if getting hot girls was that easy. it probably was that easy back in the day. :'( at least two hot girls I know waved at me from their car today… that's as good as it gets.
only4tsc 1 year ago
@only4tsc
the ugliest men if in a band get the most amazing girls all the time
bcrocker33 10 months ago
Thank you for posting this!! :)) I love this movie. I remember when this came out 11 years ago on cbs!! :D I own the DVD too.
PapagenoJuan2 1 year ago
lol
CARL looks more like the real Brian Wilson
the dude thats playin Brian looks a little retarded
jammmon 1 year ago
i love that movie
DimePiece9090 1 year ago
I wished they could of actually found someone who actually looked like Marilyn to play Marilyn not a young brunette version of Melinda
coolsweetgroovy 1 year ago
david marks is supposed to be like 13. the guy playing him looks like he's 30. what in the ass were the casting directors thinking? i did like kevin dunn as murray though
lostinthe50s81 1 year ago
is it not enough he's in court battling al jarden and whoever is left ouf of the beach boys?
bunzy11 1 year ago
@noirkitten that greedy Mike Love dont he have enough cash?
Desiree50 1 year ago
Some of the worse casting and acting I have seen, but like a train wreck I just had to watch because I am fascinated by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Love the music but this film stinks!
speak1954 1 year ago
19 cents a gallon for gasoline -
rentatrip1 1 year ago 2
Hawthorne actually appeared to be a nice suburb, pre "South Central" days. Being from Northern California, I have met a few people who relocated up here, that lived in Bell Gardens, Hawaiian Gardens, Bellflower, Norwalk, Hawthorne, etc... that described a middle class, middle American neighborhood that was a great place to raise children. I don't doubt that, but I have only known these towns to be riddled with crime and gangs now, shame.
aftershock71 1 year ago
@aftershock71 That is just like saying South Philly or Long Island are riddled with crime "now"- 60 years ago the entire USA was the middle class America- I grew up on 188th Place just down from the Wilsons- I went to Hawthorne High- that place is of a by-gone era, I was Blessed to be Born in such a time & place -God Bless Brian
rentatrip1 1 year ago
@rentatrip1 I agree with you. I was just commenting on what a shame it is, that this once idylic suburban area...went down hill with the gang problems. In fact, I read that the monument erected in front of the Wilson's now torn down home...has been vandalized with graffiti...BTW, I too am a big fan of Brian's.
aftershock71 1 year ago
When I first saw Brian from the side at the piano I thought he looked just like him...he's a little too skinny to look like Brian though...and Brian had a fuller face. Murry's voice isn't raspy enough either
jwild611 1 year ago
Mike Love actually did do some surfing in the early days. He wasn't good though. Dennis was the only REAL surfer
jwild611 1 year ago
I wonder if the father knew Michael Jackson's dad. They would've gotten along great. Very sad.
dogloverNV 1 year ago 4
Yes, Murry Wilson was very much like Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson is still living though, as Murry Wilson passed away in the early 1970's.
redsoxfan426 1 year ago 3
I'd like the beach boys a lot and i was waiting watch this film for years ..the problem is I speak spanish ..and my english is not good ...could you write the spells please ?? i mean subtitles for the film please ..or maybe you can send to me to my mail...thanks
psychodied 1 year ago
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BeaverCreekHome 1 year ago
This movie is a bastardization of The Beach Boys story. It's as one person once said on a Beach Boys forum "a monstrously vile, twisted perversion of the truth...It's Mike's version of what happened, told with a huge smirk at all the so-called 'Brian freaks' he so deeply disdains."
cheifguggletram 1 year ago
Mike Love can't surf...Dennis wilson was the only beach boy that could actually surf and he the only one that loved the ocean so much as to be buried at sea after his death in 1983!
lovergirl89 1 year ago
this was a million times better den "summer days" but one thing i did like about "summer days" was dat it was cheap looking so it gave the whole picture an eerie feeling :)
MIKZ562 1 year ago
summer dreams is a piece of shit compared to this
floydmichaelmoss 1 year ago
this movie version kicks ass, the other version american dream is CRAP..!!
wisesatyr72 1 year ago
dude i been looking for this shit for a yr
floydmichaelmoss 1 year ago
Well, the actors kinda look them but Carl is not... chubby enough.
Canaveral305 1 year ago
Why in the hell is Mike Love depicted as a surfer? I thought Dennis was the only one who could surf? I think I already know the answer to this, but someone inform me.
FuckingStanz 1 year ago
@FuckingStanz He wasn't/isn't, but this miniseries favors him more than it favors Brian. Think most BB fans agree that the man was, and still is, a dick.
luthienastru 1 year ago
I also really like "Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys" A TV movie from 1990. If you like this, you should check that one out as well.
Mithan415 1 year ago
@Mithan415 I love Summer Of Dreams it's on Netflix. In One Week A.B.C and N.B.C ran their Beach Boys movies at the same time. I love both
74sodapop 1 year ago
Woah why is Mike Love surfing in this scene? I thought only Dennis surfed, the hell?
TheAmazingstarman 1 year ago
best movie on LSD
cyrus7913 1 year ago
@cyrus7913 I second that
LAMF1968 1 year ago
i was debating whether or not dennis was getting smacked in the face or a spanking ...u never know behind those locked doors lol
kennyg03 1 year ago
lol i love the whole 50's dating scene... its sooo RETRO!
nurula007 1 year ago
You could've had Nick Drake ride in on a unicycle shitting nickels and it would've been more convincing as Fred Weller as Brian Wilson.
DonZabu 1 year ago
when does murry pop his eye out?
brabon1 1 year ago
@brabon1 thats when Brian was younger, they wouldn't show it here.
krazykelsey18 1 year ago
@krazykelsey18 i thought he liked to pop his eye out even when the kids were teens...he was an evil fuck
brabon1 1 year ago
@brabon1 oh yeah i know, i didnt know the guy and i haete him. ahaha no but he only popped it out once i believe when brian was a kid.
krazykelsey18 1 year ago
@krazykelsey18 are you sure? i thought one of his punishments to his kids was forcing them to stare into his empty eye socket
the thing that bothered me about this docudrama was the whole, "he really did love you" crap....he didnt....he didnt love his kids or his wife
and who cares if his dad was the same way...he made his choices....he destroyed his entire family....
brabon1 1 year ago
Holy Hell Murray sure was a cocksucker for smacking Brian upside the head causing him to loose his hearing in one ear.
relimes 1 year ago
murray wilson was an absolute douche.
jmua04 2 years ago 2
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ive been looking for this every were.
paudiemaguire1 2 years ago
There was another movie about the beach boys in which they had portrayed murry wilson as rigid than abusive.
johnny10301968 2 years ago
love love love that Murry Wilson is going down in history as the absolute cunt that he was
wallace7jefferson 2 years ago
@wallace7jefferson seems that after Murray died Mike Love took over as the cunt of the beach boys.
relimes 1 year ago
Everyone who want's to know about music and music history should watch this. THANKS!
MarcianoFi 2 years ago
Yay! I've been wanting to watch this for quite awhile. Beach Boys RULE!
belladeballe 2 years ago
@belladeballe
Me too! Took me for ever to find it I was thinking it was called an all American Family!
scumgod13 2 years ago
ahhh thankyou been looking for this for a long time
neilam6 2 years ago
this. is. amazing. thank you!!!
adiofan87 2 years ago
where can you buy this dvd?
tweezee 2 years ago
i watched this years ago and have been looking for it for ages. im forever in your debt. thank u soooooo much!!!!
mebs178 2 years ago 21
yesssssssssssssss
dagabar 2 years ago