The Beat Beneath My Feet
The life of a teenager boy who loves in the house with his mother and has a miserable life, as he has no friends and admires the Rock guitar, has been changed completely, when he accidentally finds out that his mysterious neighbor is the rock God that died 8 years ago, and he blackmails him to teach him the rock principles.
17 March 1982, Burlington, Wisconsin, USA
5 May 1981, Glendale, California, USA
1973, Hampshire, England, UK
October 18, 2016
Music is very definitely an essential part of [director Williams'] storytelling toolbox, which gives the movie energy even when it lacks finesse.
May 08, 2015
The highlights of the entire movie are the imaginative pop-video-style sequences, which make clever use of stop-frame animation to bring the duo's songs to life. If only there was the same vim and vigour elsewhere in this otherwise plodding tale.
October 30, 2014
Perry burrows into his emotionally fractured character with a fierce intensity, conjuring the life and inner turmoil of a conflicted rock musician as mass media fugitive. And not unlike say, Perry's perpetual flight from his Beverly Hills 90210 persona.
October 20, 2016
Michael Mueller's character-driven script is about the only thing that feels driven in this otherwise listless vehicle, and "The Beat Beneath My Feet" conveys all the pulse-pounding energy of a funeral procession.
May 11, 2015
This stultifying British indie piles on the clichés like they were going out of fashion (which they did, decades ago).
June 14, 2015
It would be easier to forgive the corny, sub-Grange Hill cliches in writer-director John Williams's script if the actual music, on whose excellence the whole thing depends, was credibly catchy and not derivative tosh.
October 18, 2016
The Beat Beneath My Feet offers a fond reminder of why we all loved Luke and introduces a bright young talent in its lead.
