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The Music Never Stopped (2011) on Netflix

PG20111h 45mDrama

Henry Sawyer learns that his estranged son Gabriel is hospitalized with a brain tumor and cannot form new memories. Music from Gabriel's teenage years is the one thing that reaches him.

  • Netflix3.9/5
  • IMDb7.5/109,149 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes67%

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In 1986, Dr. Biscow tells Henry and Helen Sawyer that their son Gabriel has a brain tumor; they have not seen him in nearly twenty years. Living as a homeless drifter, Gabriel has anterograde amnesia and can neither recall much of his past nor keep new memories. He left home as a teenager after an argument with Henry. Henry has been made redundant at work, and Helen takes a job to pay for Gabriel's treatment while pressing her husband to visit him daily. Remembering how he and Gabriel once bonded over music, and after reading that music can help patients with memory loss, Henry asks the therapist Dianne Daley to work with Gabriel. The songs Gabriel loved as a teenager, above all the Grateful Dead, prompt him to talk about his memories.

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