The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025)

An eccentric lottery winner (Tim Key) who lives alone on a remote island dreams of getting his favorite musicians, a folk group (Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan), back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a show at his home. Based on the 2007 short film THE ONE AND ONLY HERB MCGWYER PLAYS WALLIS ISLAND and directed by James Griffiths (CUBAN FURY). The film received excellent reviews but I found it barely tolerable. I could swallow its far fetched premise and wallow in its sentimentality but judging from the mediocre songs in the movie, I can't fathom the folk duo being a popular group that inspires such fandom. As the lonely diehard fan, I think Tim Key is supposed to be amusingly adorable but I found him as  totally creepy as Kathy Bates in MISERY and far less likable. I really had to force myself to sit through to the end. The only character I really liked was Akemnji Ndifornyen as Mulligan's American husband. With Sian Clifford.