The History of Future Folk (2012)

IMDb plot summary: The possibly exaggerated origin story of the real life alien bluegrass band, Future Folk, that has been playing for NYC audiences for the better part of a decade.
Directed by John Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker. Starring Nils d'Aulaire, Jay Klaitz, Julie Ann Emery, and April L. Hernandez.

This is such a strange, unusual movie, and it's a premise I'm totally on board with. The (maybe minor?) problem here is that the movie takes this amazing premise and then tries to do too many things with it. It tries to be a musical and a comedy and a romance and a sci-fi adventure all at once, and I'm not convinced it blends them together so much as it just kind of awkwardly hops from one to the other. It's a very likable mess, though, and I can definitely see it growing in my opinion on a rewatch.

How it entered my Flickchart:
The History of Future Folk > The Switch
The History of Future Folk > Waitress
The History of Future Folk < Boyhood
The History of Future Folk < Bruce Almighty
The History of Future Folk > Hairspray Live!
The History of Future Folk < Heavenly Creatures
The History of Future Folk > Deadpool
The History of Future Folk > A Raisin in the Sun
The History of Future Folk > Kiss Me, Stupid!
The History of Future Folk > Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Final spot: #591 out of 2880.