Danny Wilson, an insecure ex-boyband superstar, tries to go solo and searches for a hit single. Rick Power, a washed-up wedding singer and former band member, impulsively gives Danny a catchy song he has been working on. The story follows dreams of making it while focusing on the unacknowledged reality that success leaves behind an invisible army of losers. Rick is likable but tormented by regret over sabotaging his own career. He is married to Rachel and has a teen daughter, Aja, who warns him that songs about love have turned into revenge. Rick’s resentment and personal history shape how the betrayal unfolds.
"Power Ballad is about making it and dreaming big, about every busker never giving up on hopes of one day being mega. But as so often with Carney, it's about something else, usually left unacknowledged in movies about music or any sort of showbusiness: the terrible binary of success and failure. For every star there is an invisible army of losers, the sad cases who used to be the star's home town friends or early collaborators and have a lifelong task ahead of them coming to terms with not making it."
"Rudd's Rick is a likable American guy who used to be in an up-and-coming 90s US band, and Carney pastiches some analogue interview footage of Rudd looking younger back in the day with long hair, eyeliner and a Bill Hicks T-shirt. Not that this Dorian Gray performer needs any kind of fakery. But Rick fell in love with a wonderful Irish woman Rachel (Marcella Plunkett) while playing Dublin, stayed with her in Ireland, and now they have a teen daughter called Aja (Beth Fallon) who is the apple of his eye."
"she tells him girls aren't interested in love in songs any more, actually it's revenge. An interesting omen. Rick is more or less resigned to playing mainstream covers in a wedding band, but secretly tormented with regret for having sabotaged his career. One night, they play a wedding reception at a fancy country-house hotel and Rick resentfully clocks the fact that Danny Wilson is one of the guests; but he can"
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