Film Forum: Love & Mercy
Free mini-concert at 5:30 p.m. with the acoustic music duo On Fifth (Shereen Fahrai and Fedra Ramirez). The film begins at 6 pm.
Director Bill Pohlad's compassionate biopic based on the life of the Beach Boys' lead singer Brian Wilson. As a young as man in his twenties, Brian (Paul Dano) wrestles with success, fame, and an emerging psychosis while he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece Pet Sounds. As an older, confused and broken man in his forties, Wilson (John Cusack) finds himself under strict 24-hour watch, ordered by his therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). Beverly Hills Cadillac saleswoman, Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), becomes Brian's savior and his second wife.
This monthly film program is sponsored by Friends of the Chula Vista Library. Info: 619-691-5069. 2014, 121 minutes, PG-13. Free popcorn.