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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 4343989, member: 2504"] Fishermen's Friends (2019) - This British film is based on a true story. A cynical London music producer travels to Cornwall, and encounters a group of 10 working fishermen (not exactly a young group of men) who locally sing songs of the sea and sea chanties. A true fish out of water tale as the music producer and the singing fishermen lead rather different lives and and definitely carry different values. Eventually the music producer takes a liking to both the chanty group and the village that they reside in. The producer takes on the task of trying to sign the singing fishermen to a record deal, something that seems pretty unlikely when it is first suggested. But it is interesting to see how the journey of this proposed record deal progresses. My wife and I really enjoyed this film, partly because it really hit a musical hot spot for the two of us. We have been avid listeners to songs of the sea and sea chanties for many years, and since 1996, we have been attending annually the Connecticut Sea Music Festival, which until this year had been held at Mystic Seaport (this year it was held for the first time in Essex, CT). I expected to enjoy the music in this film, but I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that the overall story held to together for us. [/QUOTE]