Yesterday

PG-13
Starring: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Karma Sood and Harry Mitchell
Running Time: 1Hour and 56 Minutes

What a totally refreshing surprise this movie is! Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a young and very poor musician living in London. He works several small gigs with just a few spectators who show up to see him. He has a very good and faithful friend named Ellie (Lily James) who is devoted to him and encourages him to continue to chase after his dream of becoming a famous musician!
One night after finishing his show he was riding his bicycle home when there is some kind of cataclysmic event for a short time that causes the electricity to go out all across the entire world! Completely pitch dark everywhere! Jack collides with a bus and is injured. He ends up in the hospital for several days and also gets several of his teeth knocked out. Once he is well enough to leave the hospital, his ever faithful friend Ellie is there to drive him home. He gets better quickly and back on his feet again. One night he decides to play some of The Beatles songs, but no one seems to remember any of The Beatles music! He is dumbfound, he googles The Beatles and finds there is NO history or any mention of them at all! He is confused and finds the mystery getting deeper. It seems when the power went out that all of the people lost any memory of The Beatles completely!
He becomes very popular very quickly performing many of The Beatles legendary songs.
 The infamous Ed Sheeran shows up at his home where he lives with his parents and offers him to be his opening act. Suddenly he is wanted all over the world for his incredible music ability and is summoned by a huge musical recording empire in Los Angeles headed by Debra (Kate McKinnon). She is desperate to sign him and get the rights to all of his music and talent. Jack is so naive and innocent in this huge new world that he finds himself thrust into that he is completely overwhelmed.
He is becoming legendary and still questions those around him about their memory of The Beatles and they constantly reassure him they have no knowledge of the infamous group.
He is growing further apart from his beloved Ellie and she starts to become involved with Nick (Harry Mitchell) the first recording manager he began with. He knows he has to win Ellie back and proclaim his love for her!
I enjoyed this wonderful and happy movie so much, it was just fun and entertaining. A happy go lucky little movie that will brighten your spirits.
Parents be advised: This movie is rated PG-13. I would recommend it for children over the age of 10 just because of the story content. I didn’t really find anything objectionable in this movie other than
Kate McKinnon dropped one F-bomb that you really couldn’t make out very easily. Plus there was one bedroom scene but it was pretty mild and ended abruptly.
I am giving “Yesterday” four bags of popcorn.