Music and Lyrics

Directed and written by: Marc Lawrence

Memorable quotes:

 Alex Fletcher: It's brilliant on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

Alex: I am a very good has-been. Really. It's a very clear statement: "I live in the past. Everything good I ever did was long ago, so don't expect anything new or exciting from me now." Rally takes the pressure off. Especially on a first date.

Chris Riley: "It's my fault and I hate myself for it, but I'm not upset. And do you know why?
Alex: Erm, you've been at my liquor."

Chris: "Is that true? Plants make women comfortable? Well, maybe if I had plants I'd still be married.
Alex: Yes, I think that was the problem. Not Susan's affair and raging nymphomania, but your lack of vegetation."

Sophie Fisher: You haven't been cursed at till you've been cursed at in German.

Alex: Okay, huge start, great publicity, terrific money, versus eventual death. I think we have to think about it.

Alex: "Weird.
Chris: Don't give her a key.
Alex: No."

Chris: "She seems like a spiritual kid.
Alex: Yeah, it's nice to see a young woman exploring religion."

Cora: Mister Fletcher, don't look at this as a competition. If it's meant to be, it will be. It's destiny. Or not.

Chris: "Can I be honest with you?
Alex: Of course not, you're my manager, I'd have to fire you immediately."

Chris: "Thirteen-years-old kinds have no idea who you are.
Alex: That's good to know."

Greg Antonsky: "Maybe you want something more commercial? More PoP-y?
Alex: Just hold that thinly veiled insult for one sec."

Greg: "She's coming back in here, right?
Alex: Yeah, I would imagine so. Unless she does directly back to the mothership."

Greg: '"Feelings, nothing more than feelings." You people disgust me.'

Chris: "They're hot for you.
Alex: Yeah, of course, they're also hot because so many of them are going through menopause. "

Alex: "Chris, you remember Sophie?
Chris: Planted in my memory."

Alex:My God, you are... Cole Porter in panties.

Alex: "Lyrics are important. They're just not as important as melody.
Sophie: I really don't thing you get it.
Alex: Oh, you look angry. Click your pen.
Sophie: A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. Sex.
Alex: I so get that.
Sophie: But then, as you get to know the person, that's the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It's the combination of the two that makes it magic."

Alex: Just a little louder because this song is intended for humans, okay?

Chris's date: Eleven years of therapy and I finally help someone.

Sophie: "That's incredibly sensitive, Alex. Especially from someone who wears such tight pants.
Alex: It forces all the blood to my heart."

Alex: You have my permission to be impressed.

Alex: Okay: PoP face.

Cora: Derek, give me a beat: steamy and sticky.

Cora: I wanna show you the roof. It's upstairs.

Cora: "And Shakira is breathing down my neck. So I wanna dance.
Alex: You shall dance."

Alex: I did not pander. I just told her exactly what she wanted to hear.

Sophie: "Well, you know, life isn't a fairy tale and I have to grow up... and I'm gonna do that in Florida.
Alex: Well, that's just ridiculous. No one grows up in Florida. Unless they're an orange."

Alex: You should be writing, not fighting cellulite.

Sophie: "What happened to steamy and sticky?
Alex: Well, I explained to her that it violated the very core of the lyric and corrupted the purity of the songs. And when that didn't work, I told her it would help me win you back. That did it. Turns out that although she thought the Dalai Lama was, incredibly enough, a llama, she is, in fact, quite the romantic. "

Plot: Alex Fletcher is a happy 80s has-been. He used to be in the famous 80s band PoP until his best-friend and bandmate Colin decided he was the star of the group and left the band. Ever since then, Alex Fletcher may have become has-been, but he has never lost hope that he'll be under the spotlight again, hoping for a big break. Luck finally knocks at his door when the famous Pop artist Cora Corman asks him to write her a new song. Feeling unable to write lyrics all by himself, Alex starts looking for a lyricist, and unexpectedly finds one in the person of the extravagant Sophie Fisher, who he met while she came to water his plants...

Review:

Music and Lyrics has been deemed by the Sunday Mirror as "a tuneful romantic comedy" and I couldn't agree more. It is such a cute and awesome movie. I definitely enjoy watching it regularly and always cherish this moment for this movie always enables me to spend great movie nights. It's just so sweet and romantic, yet not too mellow or naive. It's witty and the dialogues are all extremely funny. You won't be able to count the number of puns you'll hear from Hugh Grant's character, namely Alex Fletcher. I shouldn't have been surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie though, especially considering the fact that the director, Marc Lawrence, also wrote the script of one of my favourite movies, that is to say Miss Congeniality. The guy is brilliant and I'm guessing he must be an incredible funny person in real life! Would love to meet him.
The cast is also brilliant, staring two of the most popular actors of our time: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Haley Bennett was also a revelation in Music and Lyrics. I don't believe I had ever seen her act in anything before, and I thought she did a great job. Her character has some of the funniest and most absurd lines ever heard before. She has now also stars in a movie that I haven't checked out yet, Kaboom, but I'll make sure to review it as long as I'm able to. She did impress me a lot, despite the obvious lack of credibility of her character in the film.
I was also greatly impressed by Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore's singing. I thought their voices were incredibly melodious and soothing, and I'd just have loved to hear them sing a bit more. I have to say that the only time I was ever disappointed by this film was when it ended. I just didn't want it to finish! Their voices sound particularly great when they sing together, and Hayley Bennett singing was also terrific, although some of her songs were a little bit dubious!
Music and Lyrics will also give you the opportunity to see Matthew Morrison, who has now become famous while starring on the hit T.V. show Glee as professor Will Schuester. 
Basically, Music and Lyrics has some great actors, a sweet storyline, amazing dialogues, and original and catchy lyrics sang by actors we rarely have the opportunity to actually hear sing.  Personally, I couldn't have asked for more and that's probably why I show so much enthusiasm toward this movie.
If you want to spend a great time watching a movie that will melt your heart and make you go "awww" an unlimited amount of times, then this movie is definitely and absolutely for you!