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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 23443
Released: June 1, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
International teen singing sensation Charlotte Church makes her movie debut in I'll Be There. Charlotte plays Olivia a talented teenager who discovers her father is a famous rock star who doesn't know she exists. Olivia tries to get her newfound dad to help her become a singing star and at the same time reunite her parents who haven't spoken in nearly fifteen years. I'll Be There is a feel-good comedy about love and the power of music to bring people together.Running Time: 106 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085392466023
Description of I'll Be There:
This low-key, thoroughly delightful comedy is the product of Scottish comic/actor/writer/director Craig Ferguson's goofy and sweet imagination. Ferguson plays retired rock star Paul Kerr, a 1980s sensation whose whiskey-fueled antics in a Welsh mansion land him, involuntarily, in a psychiatric hospital. In short order, an old bandmate (Ralph Brown) turns up to help Paul get sober, and a long-lost love (Jemma Redgrave) introduces the mortified musician to an adolescent daughter (Charlotte Church) he never knew he had. Lots of catching up and relationship repairs ensue, but the film is really an off-center, eccentric comedy in which quaint villagers debate the origins of guitar feedback and 75-year-old veteran actor Joss Ackland (Surviving Picasso) can be found performing Roy Orbison rockers. A pleasant surprise is golden-throated Church's acting debut; revered for years as a singing prodigy, she proves to be a natural actress and outstanding pop-song stylist. --Tom Keogh
I'll Be There Reviews:
A comedy about music- and family 
2008-05-14 - This is a film that we watch about twice a year. Craig Ferguson was outstanding but so was almost everyone else in this very well acted comedy about family and music. And this is a real comedy where you will find real laughs (many comedies seem to be placed in that category simply because they fit no where else). Charlotte Church was far better as an actress than anyone could have expected. And her music was stunning. Her rendition of Gershwin's "Summertime" was both beautiful and perfectly placed as a music jewel in the crown of this comedy. You will enjoy this one.
A Positive Film About A Rock Star..A Total Suprise
2007-12-05 - What a sheer delight touched with a bit of sadness as see the wonderful girl Charlotte Church 'used to be'....
I have always been a Josh Ackland since I saw 'Shadowlands' where his portrayal of C.S.Lewis is far superior to that of Anthony Hopkin's..To see him 'rocking out' and being so lovable dispite his many shortcomings is a wonderful treat...
The humor is delightfully subtle and all of the characters are so very human...No one is perfect yet all of them (with one exception) are loveable...The last ten minutes create joyful tears....
Voice on an Angel (of course) 
2007-04-19 - You can't go wrong when Charolotte Church is involved... This film was excellent and enjoyable, a must-see!
I'll be there 
2007-01-10 - not bad movie, but not great. However service is first rate
Sam Waite
2006-11-17 - This movie will become a Family classic favorite and the Music is superb. Great music, script, acting, photography and directing. All without the Hollywood scat treatment. A fun and uplifting movie that all ages can enjoy.
If you wish to see Charlotte Church be an angel... and sing the music that she has become famous for... forget that. She plays a daughter with a golden voice hidden from her mother. She sings a classical piece as well as George Gershwin's Summertime aria in a manner to rival Ella Fitzgerald. That is great praise for a Welsh lady, singing a Southern American classic.
All of the the actors were awesome in their British quirkiness. The ensemble of actors brought this script to life and obviously all had great fun doing it. For most of them I do not think they were acting. They were themselves, dressed up to play and work with friends. It is they that lift this movie from the ranks of good family entertainment to superb family entertainment.
I have purchased more than one copy of this DVD movie. Many as gifts to family and friends who had never heard of it in American Theatres.
Five Stars for good entertainment.
