In His Life: The John Lennon Story

Thats right, except for a couple of early scenes, this has all been done and better in Dick Clarks view of Beatle begginigs. This film tries to cover too much in too short a time and ends up basically being a collage of 5 minutes each episodes about John and except for a few snippets regarding his father and mother, the Birth of the Beatles covered the same time era and did it with a little more flow and linearity. And just to nitpick, this was the worst looking early Lennon actor ive ever seen. I couldnt even be sure for a few minutes that this was the John Lennon actor, he couldve been anyone.

This is a capably directed, better than average television movie about the beginnings of The Beatles, as seen through the eyes of John Lennon. The focus of the film is always on John and some of the people, places, and events that shaped his early life and made him the man he was to become. As its focus is on John Lennon, the other members of The Beatles take a back seat to John in the film.The film, shot in the gritty, port city of Liverpool where John and the other Beatles grew up, shows how John (Phillip McQuillan) was reared by his devoted Aunt Mimi (Blair Brown), his mother Julia's older sister. His mother, Julia (Christine Cavanaugh), also lived in Liverpool and he would visit with her, but his father was an absentee one and would remain nothing but a distant memory. John grew up in his Aunt Mimi's household, and it was she who governed much of his early life. It was his mother, however, who was instrumental in John getting his first guitar.The film shows the viewer some of the... Read more