Archetype of all "open stage" guitar-strumming singers

Rating: 1/10 (26 July 2007)

I'm a pianist, and I used to be a professional musician before giving up what I loved doing and taking a job that had regular pay, health insurance, retirement, etc...
As such, I thought I might enjoy seeing a movie about someone who is hoping to maybe make a hit recording, and maybe falls in love along the way. I was wrong.
The movie starts out with some dude playing one of those three-chord acoustic guitar and unpleasant vocal songs, just like the hundreds of songs I've had to sit and listen to during my early days when I performed in open stages, coffeehouses, and talent nights.
Then something happens, and it's night-time, and the same dude is singing again; this time with somewhat more interesting guitar chords, but the voice is even more irritating.
Then he talks with a chick for a few minutes; turns out he is a vacuum-cleaner repair person, and she just happens to have a broken vacuum-cleaner, and they agree to meet the next day (yeah, right).
He goes back to his apartment and starts singing and playing his guitar again.
Next day, she meets him on the street, pulling her broken vacuum-cleaner behind her by the hose. (Does somebody actually take credit for writing this screenplay?? I'd be embarrassed to put my name on it). Since he can't fix it there, and it would make way too much sense to take it to the repair shop, they eat some food and go to a music store where she can play the piano (which must have a few broken keys, or else she goofed up the same couple of notes twice) and -- you guessed it -- he sings again (so does she).
Then they're sitting in the back of a bus, and he starts playing the guitar and singing again -- at this point, I got up, left the theater without turning back, and drove home.
I suppose it might be interesting to know what ever happened between the two of them, but the thought of sitting there for another hour or so of three-chord acoustic guitar songs with unpleasant vocals was simply too much for me.