The Sweetest Sound

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Actor: Alain Berliner, Alan S. Berliner, Allen Berliner, Oscar Berliner
Brand: New Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Docurama
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With the intimacy and humor of a personal essay, Berliner flies headfirst inside the American name pool in search of the treasures and dangers hidden inside his own name. A film that starts out in search of identity slowly transforms into a meditation on mortality. Along the way, he confronts his parents about the origin of his name, his sister about the names she gave her children and visits the

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Movie Review: A Search for Identity
Summary: 5 Stars

Although on the surface, Alan Berliner's documentary "The Sweetest Sound" appears to be an hour-long exploration of his own name, the film actually addresses the universal relationship between a person's name and his or her identity.

Berliner takes an amusing look at how Jims in the Jim Smith Society, Lindas at the National Linda Convention, random people on the street, and 12 other Alan Berliners associate themselves and others with particular names. Programmed as a documentary at film festivals and on PBS, the film is really more of a personal essay in which the filmmaker examines one of his pet peeves (i.e., sharing his name), and views the subject from every angle.

While "The Sweetest Sound" answers many questions for the filmmaker, it opens a series of questions for the viewer that may amuse or provoke. The film contains humor, clever editing, and sparkling sound effects, but it also has a serious side in which names are presented as posthumous elements of memory as he visits tombstones in the graveyard or rattles off lists of long-forgotten people.

"The Sweetest Sound" is a unique examination of identity that is thought-provoking and highly entertaining.

Leslie Halpern, author of Dreams on Film: The Cinematic Struggle Between Art and Science and Reel Romance: The Lovers' Guide to the 100 Best Date Movies.

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