Interesting Concept

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2019)

I saw "Yesterday", starring Himesh Patel-Damned_tv, Eastenders_tv; Lily James-Baby Driver, Downton Abbey_tv; Ed Sheeran-yes, the singer, and you might have seen him in the Game of Thrones_tv or Bridget Jones's Baby and Kate McKinnon-The Spy Who Dumped Me, Rough Night.
This is an interesting concept about what if no one had ever heard of the rock group The Beatles or their music. It reminded me of the old Marvel comic book series called 'What If?'. Himesh plays a struggling musician that gets hit by a bus when power all over the world goes off for about 12 seconds-there is a quick explanation given as to the cause. When he wakes up, nobody has a clue as to who the Beatles are. There are several other things that have magically disappeared from everyone's minds, too-except for Himesh's-such as the soft drink Coke. Lily is Himesh's manager/chauffeur-she drives him everywhere since he can't drive-and is one of the first people that stuns him with the lack of knowledge of who the Beatles are. When he plays a Beatles song, everyone thinks he is a genius song writer and he even tells Lily that he didn't write the songs but she doesn't believe him. Ed playing himself, becomes friends with Hamish after hearing one of his masterpieces and offers him a job as his opening act. Kate is Ed's manager and tries to get Hamish's business by taking over as his manager, too, squeezing Lily out of a job. Hamish feels bad about taking undue credit but things keep escalating. It has lots of the Beatles songs-I think I read that it has 17 songs they got the rites to-and there is a couple of cameos, including one big whopper.
It's rated "PG-13" for suggestive content and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 56 minutes.
I really enjoyed it and if you are a Beatles fan, you probably will, too. I would buy it on Blu-Ray.