Harmony & Me

(USA, 2009, 75 mins)

FR 29.87

Executive Producers: Anish Savjani, Stuart Bohart
Producer: Kristen Tucker
Screenwriter: Bob Byington
Cinematographer: Jim Eastburn
Editor: Frank Ross, Jacob Vaughan
Cast: Justin Rice, Kevin Corrigan, Pat Healy, Kristen Tucker
Music: Justin Rice, Bob Schneider

• Trailer

Break-ups are never easy, especially when your ex-girlfriend already checked out several months before the official end. Twentysomething Harmony, however, just can’t seem to drop his torch for the departed Jessica even as his motley crew of friends, his gleefully odd family, and his obnoxious boss repeatedly remind him that he isn’t the only one with issues.

Starring indie rock musician Justin Rice as the mournful Harmony and featuring such indie film stalwarts as Kevin Corrigan and Alex Karpovsky as Harmony’s dubiously comforting friends, Bob Byington’s film is an offbeat and insightful dissection of the kind of aimless, quotidian pain that can wind up being both hilarious and creative. Harmony seems like a lost cause, but as he composes a song at his piano lessons and jams with the band at a family wedding, he finds a way out of being the fool he evokes with Madonna’s “Borderline” in this rough-hewn yet eloquent ode to art’s restorative power.

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