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Greendale

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Greendale

Starring: Peggi Young, James Mazzeo, Sarah White

Director: Bernard Shakey

The film: Just when you thought the concept-album movie that gave rise to The Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Wall was dead and buried, legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young has resurrected the genre in a more

lucid fashion.

Greendale, based on last year's album of the same name, is a hybrid of the movie musical and music video, with each scene working as a companion piece to the CD tracks.

Owners of the album will be familiar with the story of Greendale, a fictional rural American town with a cast of seemingly everyday characters. At the heart of the story is the Green family. Matriarch Edith Green (played by the musician's wife, Peggi Young) and her husband, Earl (James Mazzeo), have a teenager daughter, Sun (Sarah White). When Sun's cousin Jed (Eric Johnson) commits a serious crime, it impacts on the lives of the Greens, having its biggest influence on Sun.

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