This fine family film asks the timely question WWJD . . .

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2014)

. . . if He were a New York City record producer. No, Mark Ruffalo's "Dan" probably does not qualify as a Rock Messiah. He's a scruffy, profane, broken-down drunk initially estranged from his wife and daughter, as well as being saddled with an unreliable cheap foreign import junker (a make that rhymes with "drag-you-car"). But playing Wendy to Dan's Lost Boy, Keira Knightley as singer\songwriter "Gretta" pops into his life out of nowhere (a.k.a., Bristol, England) as his new Muse to set things right. Though a few Holier-than-Thou.Ers walked out of my showing at the 26 minute, 20-second mark (near Dan's nadir), those who remained clapped at BEGIN AGAIN's close. This flick is no Hallmark Channel movie. Rather, it's a realistic tribute to people who can see an alternate America, where the Corporate sell-outs are unmasked and the morbidly obese Middle Men who have sucked dry the U.S. Middle Class to enrich the One Per Cent finally are told where they can go.