Hot on the patent-leather heels of That Thing You Do! comes another movie about making it in the music world. Allison Sanders' Grace Of My Heart zips through a decade of tootling from doo-wap to song-led '60s smoothness, doing a quick rock around the frock of fashion on the way. Mixing melody and melodrama, it chronicles the trials of singer/songwriter Denise Waverly, and is fair littered with jaunty musical numbers. In fact, with its tale of a Carole King figure who works in the Brill building, it's close to being a parody of a music biopic (think The Karen Carpenter Story). And with some songs co-written by Gallagherian guru Bacharach and Elvis ""Moi?"" Costello, its soundtrack is so "authentic" you'll have trouble getting it out of your head.
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