Movie
1996
Grace of My Heart is a 1996 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Allison Anders, and starring Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Patsy Kensit and John Turturro. The film charts the fictional music career of Denise Waverly, an aspiring singer who writes for other artists in the pop music world of the mid-1960s. It premiered at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival and went into…
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Most of the music scholars would agree that 1960s represent the most interesting period in the history of pop music. Those who pay attention to Hollywood music would also agree, since the songs from those years constitute soundtrack in many contemporary films, regardless of their period setting. On the other hand, Hollywood, while exploiting that cultural treasure, paid very little attention to the very people who h…More
