Hearts Beat Loud

Episode 19: Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

Theme: Movies About Music
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis slow things down with Hearts Beat Loud — the 2018 indie comfort-movie where Nick Offerman grows a beard of emotions, Kiersey Clemons prepares for UCLA by learning every life skill except riding a bike, and a record store collapses under the weight of feelings, vinyl, and Ted Danson holding a weed pen.

Join your two favorite soft-boy cinephiles as they explore:

• Why Frank Fisher is the most dad-coded man alive, powered entirely by plaid, stubbornness, and New Balance shoes.

• How Sam manages to be a top-tier student, musician, daughter, AND girlfriend — basically the anti–Michael Cera.

• Why Tony Collette is once again contractually obligated to show up whenever trauma appears within a five-mile radius.

• How this movie delivers more “emotionally supportive bar owner” energy than Cheers, Deadwood, and your local Applebee’s combined.

• And the strange magic of a world where uploading one song to Spotify instantly makes you famous, but remembering your landlord’s feelings apparently does not.

From jam sessions to heartbreak, from klepto grandma to bike-riding breakthroughs, Hearts Beat Loud gives us the kind of music movie where nobody spontaneously bursts into song — but everyone still desperately needs therapy.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 60 Healthy Beats per Minute
Curtis — 81 Crying Dads
Both — Still waiting for their viral Spotify moment.