![]() The film cast includes Selma Blair, Judy Greer, Fred Armisen, Brian Baumgardner, Chris Messina and is set to hit theaters on October 14. The titular track, “Ordinary World,” is also featured in the band’s upcoming 12th album, slated for release on October 7. 14, 2016 Billie Joe Armstrong may be punk rock’s biggest triple threat. When his attorney wife (Blair) and his daughter have forgotten his 40th birthday, his brother (Messina) provides him with the chance to throw a huge rockstar blowout to evoke his punk past glory as he encounters bandmates and former manager who proposed to revive his career.īesides taking the lead, Armstrong further wrote four original songs for the movie. Billie Joe Armstrong has a new Green Day album out and plays the lead in the indie movie Ordinary World. While his band is in “indefinite hiatus” he finds it hard to adjust in his new non-music-centric life. The punk rock royalty will play the main character, Perry, a “former rocker-turned-family man”. A Universal release.While Green Day is set to release their new album “Revolution Radio,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is also starring in his first role on the big screen in “Ordinary World,” an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lee Kirk. An official trailer has arrived for an indie comedy titled Ordinary World, from the director of John Krasinskis. MPAA Rating: unrated, with alcohol abuse, smoking, adult situationsĬast: Billie Joe Armstrong, Selma Blair, Fred Armisen, Judy Greer, Dallas RobertsĬredits: Written and directed by Lee Kirk. It plays like a reality TV pilot that’s a little too real (boring) for its own good. Writer-director Lee Kirk’s script manages a few laugh-out-loud lines and moments, and Armstrong has an offhanded charm that plays well in a role tailor-made for him.īut “Ordinary World” is a little too enamored of the phrase “Truth in advertising.” It’s run of the mill, humdrum, “ordinary” in its set up, the “ticking clock” (Can Perry polish off the party in time to get her new guitar to his daughter before the big elementary school talent show?), and temptations (pricey booze, punking out, Judy Greer). “It’s AWESOME that you still say ‘Awesome!'” No, there’s to be no punk music on that floor, even if that means his pals complain “You’re just no fun any more.”Īnd yes, that’s his old punk flame, now Joan Jett’s manager (J udy Greer) he runs into in the lobby. No, they don’t allow them in the suites at the Drake. Billie Joe Armstrong fails spectacularly in a small-talk attempt with rock icon Joan Jett in a clip from Ordinary World, which stars the Green Day frontman in his first leading film role. He calls his drummer ( Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia”) and announces a party. So he takes his settlement cash from the store, marches over to The Drake Hotel and gets the biggest suite in the joint. Perry needs a break from “Dad mode.” He needs to remember “the old days.” He’d love to “get the band back together.” The other dads at school want him in their “Dad’s Group.” His brother ( Chris Messina) is angling to buy his perpetually tardy butt out of the family hardware store.Īnd the wife has forgotten his birthday, a big one - his 40th. ![]() But now Perry’s the guy who yells, “How many times I gotta tell you, USE an ashtray?” when friends come over. He’s still got the wild mop of dyed hair. Armstrong was influenced early on by his. Born in 1972, Armstrong showed a remarkable interest in music from a young age, as evidenced by the fact that he recorded his first song, ‘Look For Love’, at the tender age of five. Now, the only music he makes is to mock-explain the expletives he and mom ( Selma Blair) still let fly in front of their tweenage daughter and toddler. Billie Joe Armstrong is the charismatic singer, multi-instrumentalist and frontman for Green Day. Twenty years before, Perry pounded through sets at assorted punk-friendly clubs in greater New York. The movie reminds you of a perhaps unfair knock at those “American Idiots,” Green Day. In “Ordinary World,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong plays an aging punk - husband and dad years past his punk-rock peak - who decides the most punk thing he can still manage is to blow a wad of his hardware store-job cash on a party for himself in a high-end New York hotel room.
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