Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic material, some strong language, some sexual material and brief drug use). In theaters Dec. 25. If there’s one slam-dunk choice in “Song Sung Blue,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson’s musical drama about a real-life Neil Diamond ...

Before I get around to weighing in on Craig Brewer’s “Song Sung Blue,” know this: If you, like me, grew up in a household where your dad sometimes listened to Neil Diamond, it is my professional duty ...

Early on in Song Sung Blue, there’s a scene where Hugh Jackman’s character, Mike Sardina, steps up to a microphone and starts singing the movie’s titular Neil Diamond classic before heading to the ...

Like Neil Diamond himself, "Song Sung Blue" — the story of a Neil Diamond tribute act working through life's trials and tribulations — is a little bit schmaltzy, but full of heart and warmth. Or, as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Neil Diamond-themed music drama Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, ...

If Song Sung Blue, which had its world premiere as the closing-night film of AFI Fest, weren’t a true story no one would ever have the nerve to make it. The unlikely triumphs and unspeakable tragedies ...

Focus Features did Song Sung Blue no favors by positioning it as an Oscar hopeful before its release. The pressures of awards season aren't always kind to the movies that endure them, even the ones ...

This Christmas, dream huge. Check out the Song Sung Blue trailer for this upcoming film starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, and featuring the iconic songs of Neil Diamond. The film also stars ...

A human interest story in cinematic form, Song Sung Blue is more lukewarm than heartwarming despite its talented cast. Starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a married Neil Diamond nostalgia act, ...

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There are a lot of ways that “Song Sung Blue” — a film about real Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute act Lighting and Thunder — could have gone awry. The premise alone could be a “Saturday Night Live” ...