Like many people, I went through my own Beatlemania, albeit a generation or two too late, when I was 16. I suddenly gained a new appreciation of my mom’s 45’s of “Help!” and “She Loves You”, and got completely stuck on “Revolver”. I don’t know how I got around to NOT seeing A Hard Day’s …
The story, set in the USA in the 1960s, centers on a trio of friends: Liverpudlian immigrant Jude (Jim Sturgess), girlfriend Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), and Lucy’s rebellious older brother, Max (Joe Anderson). With a soundtrack featuring many of the Fab Four’s greatest hits, the film tracks our heroes through a series of vignettes about …