And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

Whether it was the female script writer or perhaps a lawsuit threatened by the actual Cher, THANK YOU for giving Cher a voice in Sonny Bono's narrative. Fresh off reading The Beat Goes On by Bono, I entered this with less than zero expectations. But the actress who plays Cher is PHENOMENAL! Where is her Emmy?? I do not say this lightly. And this movie adds what is missing from Bono's tedious book: Cher's voice!!! Two sides to every story and Cher has hers. Somewhere in the middle of their stories lies the sad truth. Honestly, it ends up being a tragic, yet beautiful love story. Remarkable for a TV movie. Top marks across the board!

I thought Renee Faia *was* Cher. Very believable; she really nailed it. I always liked to watch Cher on the Sonny & Cher show and I felt like I was back in the 60's.

I thought that this movie was going to be very lame, but it was better than I thought it was. I didn't think that Jay Underwood could exactly match the REAL Sonny Bono's look, but Renee was a great Cher! I've seen the first episode of the Sonny and Cher show, and they made that different looking in the movie, but that is okay. I really enjoyed this tv movie! It's a lot better than it looks!

It would sure be nice to watch a movie or even read an article that got all the facts straight about Sonny & Cher. Even with all that has been written about them and especially Cher, one would think that the facts would be common knowledge. Alas! That is not true! Even when Sonny wrote the book the movie is based on they still got a few things wrong. The Beat Goes On did not get recorded just before the Tv show started, All I Ever Need Is You did, but they don't mention that. They just get the facts wrong. Next time spend a little time on your sequencing and pretend to care about your subject. Beyond the fact problem the story is nostalgic and the actors do a good job!

I can't vouch to say how accurately the two main characters (Sonny are Cher) are portrayed in this film not in appearance and their mannerisms. From what I have seen of the couple, the actors seem convincing and the story line seems true to events.

The scenes of the couple as hosts on a TV show are particularly, good and are a good representation of TV show hosts in America in the 60's, rather than as they might appear nowadays.

The media/news since has portrayed Sonny as somewhat of an over-bearing character, but the Cher portrayed seems to understand this along along and go with for as long as possible for the career benefits she received, which seems a much more likely and credible turn of events.

I didn't realize until watching this film how much Sonny had contributed to the music production of their songs and how closely he had worked with other producers at the time, including the awesome, and now highly discredited Phil Spector.

Whatever they have done since, we all have to learn to see their actions for what was going on in the context of their time, rather than writing them off because of later historical re-interpretations.

It's a little long at about 2 hours long, but well worth watching right through to the end.