The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009) on Netflix
PG20091h 41mDocumentary
Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, brothers and songwriting partners, won an Academy Award and a Grammy. A documentary looks at the estrangement between them over the years.
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Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman are brothers and a music composing team who won an Academy Award and a Grammy. The documentary deals with the professional growth of the pair and with the estrangement between them through the years. They are best known for the up-beat Disney music they wrote. Interviews with family members and with several people in the film industry appear, among them actors who worked with the brothers on Mary Poppins, the producer Roy E. Disney, fellow film composers such as John Williams and Stephen Schwartz, and the film critic Leonard Maltin. The two brothers also appear.
