Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his
original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The
Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.
It's an
original, a war hero born in the Greatest Generation, as American as The
Beach Boys, Levis, and French fries.