Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn

出生 : 1969-04-03, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

略歴

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born April 3, 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and since then he has had roles in films such as Animal Kingdom (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017) and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). In 2017, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in Captain Marvel (2019) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). He reprised his role as Talos in the Disney+ series Secret Invasion (2023) for 4 episodes. Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix original series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. In 2020, Mendelsohn starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.

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参加作品

The Marsh King's Daughter
Jacob Holbrook
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
To Catch a Killer
Geoffrey Lammark
Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass murderer.
シラノ
De Guiche
ロスタンの名作戯曲「シラノ・ド・ベルジュラック」を、ジョー・ライト監督が映画化したロマンティック・ミュージカル。自分の容姿に自信がない仏軍きっての騎士が、片想い相手の恋愛を応援するはめになり……。
ベイビーティース
Henry
病を抱える16歳の女子高生ミラは、ふとしたことから孤独な不良青年モーゼスと出会い、恋に落ちる。両親のアナとヘンリーは、ミラの初めての恋を心配し猛反対するが、ミラは怖いもの知らずで自分を特別扱いせずに接してくれるモーゼスに惹かれ、彼との刺激的でカラフルに色づいた日々を駆け抜けていく- しかし…。
Gorillaz: Reject False Icons
Himself
Focused on the life of the band and their collaborators over the 3 vital years in which they developed critically acclaimed albums, 'Humanz' and 'The Now Now', and undertook their most ambitious world tour to date.
スパイ in デンジャー
Killian (voice)
世界最高の凄腕スパイ・ランス(ウィル・スミス)は、活動を陰で支えている若き天才科学者ウォルター(トム・ホランド)が開発するガジェットを使って任務に当たっていた。しかし、ウォルターが新開発した装置のテスト中に誤動作が発生し、ランスは小さな鳩に変身してしまう。人間に戻ることが出来なくなってしまったランスは、鳩の姿のまま世界を震撼させる悪党キリアンに立ち向かうことになるのだが・・・。
キング
King Henry IV
英国王である父の死後、王位を継承したハル。自由気ままな王子が、宮廷の問題や戦争、混乱の時代を経験しながら、国王としてたくましく成長していく姿を描く。
スパイダーマン:ファー・フロム・ホーム
Talos (uncredited)
高校生のピーター・パーカー(トム・ホランド)は夏休みを迎え、親友のネッド(ジェイコブ・バタロン)やMJ(ゼンデイヤ)たちとヨーロッパへ旅行に行く。ところが、ピーターの前にS.H.I.E.L.D.の長官ニック・フューリー(サミュエル・L・ジャクソン)が現れ、彼にある任務を与える。
キャプテン・マーベル
Talos / Keller
1995年、ロサンゼルスのビデオショップに、突然正体不明の女性が空から降ってくる。彼女には驚くべきパワーが備わっていたが、全く覚えていない“記憶”がフラッシュバックすることが悩みだった。その記憶にはある秘密が隠されており、それを狙う敵がいた。彼女は、後にアベンジャーズを結成するニック・フューリーと共に戦いに身を投じることになる。
Untogether
Martin
Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a rising author known for his wartime memoirs.
フッド:ザ・ビギニング
Sheriff of Nottingham
何の苦労も知らずに穏やかに暮らしていた領主のロビン・ロクスリーは、十字軍に召集されて戦地へ赴く。しかし4年後に帰国すると、自分の戦死届が出され、領地も財産も没収されていた。領民や恋人を追放されたロビンは、海を渡って潜入してきた敵の狙撃手ジョンの導きを得て領主に返り咲く。国を思うままに動かそうとする長官のもとや教会の内部に入り込みつつ、ロビンは頭巾(フッド)で顔を隠し、領民から搾取した金を盗んでは人々に還元。教会が抱える秘密にも迫っていく。やがて彼は《フッド》と呼ばれて民心を集めるが、脅威を感じた教会は非情な先鋭部隊を送り込んでくる。
The Land of Steady Habits
Anders Hill
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.
レディ・プレイヤー1
Nolan Sorrento
そう遠くない未来では、バーチャル世界の理想郷OASIS(オアシス)だけが若者たちの希望となっていた。そこでは、想像したことすべてが現実になり、誰にでも、また何にでもなれる。ある日、OASISを作り上げた天才にして大富豪の男から広大なOASISのどこかに隠された宝の卵を見つけた者はOASISの後継者となれるという遺言が全世界に向けて発信されたことにより、全人類参加の壮大なトレジャー・ハンティングが始まる。
Larrikins
Howard (voice)
When an uptight bilby escapes his sheltered life from his family burrow, he ventures out and finds himself launched on a musical adventure across the mystical Australian outback.
Finest Hour
George VI
The year is 1940. As Hitler's forces storm across Europe, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His leadership is immediately tested as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops become trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, with the Germans closing in. As the desperate battle for survival unfolds on land, air, and sea, Churchill must fight his own battles to launch a daring rescue effort across the English Channel. This fan edit combines the intense frontline action of Dunkirk with the backroom political intrigue of Darkest Hour, to create an epic supercut that tells the full story of the Dunkirk evacuation.
ウィンストン・チャーチル/ヒトラーから世界を救った男
King George VI
第2次世界大戦初期、ナチスドイツによってフランスが陥落寸前にまで追い込まれ、イギリスにも侵略の脅威が迫っていた。連合軍が北フランスの港町ダンケルクの浜辺で窮地に陥る中、就任したばかりの英国首相ウィンストン・チャーチルの手にヨーロッパ中の運命が委ねられることに。ヒトラーとの和平交渉か徹底抗戦か、究極の選択を迫られるチャーチルだった。
I Am Heath Ledger
Self
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Himself
The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Una
Ray Brooks
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
ローグ・ワン/スター・ウォーズ・ストーリー
Director Orson Krennic
銀河帝国軍は巨大兵器デス・スターを完成させるが、その開発に携わったゲイレンは殺された妻の復讐のため、デス・スターの重要情報をパイロットのボーディーに託して脱走させる。ボーディーが反帝国勢力の戦士ソウのもとへ向かったと知った帝国軍はゲイレンの娘で、無法者として帝国軍に逮捕されていたジンを利用しようとするが、反乱同盟軍に救われたジンは自分を育てたソウと反乱軍を取り持とうとソウがいる惑星ジェダに向かう。
SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT
Footage from the making of the film 'Slow West'
Guns for Hire
Kyle Sullivan
Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.
ワイルド・ギャンブル
Gerry
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
スロウ・ウエスト
Payne
19世紀アメリカ、コロラド。スコットランドの青年貴族ジェイは、何も言わずに旅立った恋人ローズを捜して単身米国へとやって来た。東海岸から西部へ向けて旅を続けるジェイだが、未開地で荒くれ者に襲われ、危ういところをサイラスという謎めいた賞金稼ぎに助けられる。サイラスを用心棒に雇い、ローズを捜す旅を続けるジェイ。だがジェイは気付かなかったものの、サイラスは途中の町でローズとその父が賞金首であることを知る。
ロスト・リバー
Dave
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.
ブラック・シー
Fraser
海洋サルベージの専門家ロビンソンは、ある日突然、11年間も勤め続けた会社からクビを言い渡され途方にくれる。30年近くも仕事一筋で家族を犠牲にしてきたロビンソンにとって陸上ので仕事は想定外。妻クリシーと12歳の息子のマーティンも彼のもとを離れてしまった。そんな矢先、彼はかつての仕事仲間カーストンから耳寄りな情報を得る。第二次大戦時に莫大な金塊を積んだドイツ軍のUボートが黒海のグルジア沖の深海に沈没したままになっているというのだ。
エクソダス:神と王
Viceroy Hegep
紀元前1300年。最強の王国として名をはせるエジプトの王家に養子として迎えられて育ったモーゼは、兄弟同然のような固い絆で結ばれていたはずのエジプト王ラムセスとたもとを分かつ。その裏には、苦境に立たされている40万にも及ぶヘブライの人々を救わねばならないというモーゼの信念があった。そして、彼らのための新天地「約束の地」を探し求めることに。過酷な旅を続ける一方で、彼はエジプトを相手にした戦いを余儀なくされていく。
名もなき塀の中の王
Neville Love
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
美しい絵の崩壊
Harold
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
プレイス・ビヨンド・ザ・パインズ/宿命
Robin Van Der Hook
天才ライダーのルークは移動遊園地でバイクショーを行う刹那的な日々を送っていたある日、元恋人ロミーナと再会。彼女がルークとの子どもを内緒で生んでいたことを知ると、二人の生活のためにバイクテクニックを生かして銀行強盗をするようになる。ある日銀行を襲撃したルークは逃走する際、昇進を目指す野心的な新米警官エイヴリーに追い込まれるが……。
ジャッキー・コーガン
Russell
「優しく殺す」をモットーにする殺し屋ジャッキー・コーガン(ブラッド・ピット)は、ドライバーと呼ばれるエージェント(リチャード・ジェンキンス)から賭博場強盗の黒幕を捜す依頼を受ける。彼は前科のあるマーキー(レイ・リオッタ)を捜し出したものの、強盗を仕組んだのは別の悪党3人組であることが判明。さまざまな思惑が複雑に絡み合う中、ジャッキーは事件に関わった者を皆殺しにすることを決める。
ダークナイト・ライジング
John Daggett
8年前、ゴッサム・シティの希望のためバットマンは町を去り、その正体であるブルース・ウェインは今も隠遁生活を送る。新たに作られたデント法のもと、平和になったゴッサム・シティだが、そこへ凶暴な悪党ベインとその一味が現われ大混乱となる。ベインは実は同じ師匠を持つ、ブルースの兄弟子だった。執事アルフレッドに去られ、ベインの陰謀で財産を失いながらも、ブルースは再びバットマンとなってベインに立ち向かう。
ブレイクアウト
Elias Collins
『オペラ座の怪人』などの巨匠ジョエル・シューマカーがメガホンを取り、豪華な屋敷を舞台に描き出す密室劇。セキュリティー対策は万全のはずの自宅で、いきなり強盗団に襲われる家族の悲劇を臨場感たっぷりに映し出す。勇敢な父親を『ナショナル・トレジャー』シリーズのニコラス・ケイジが演じ、その妻を『ラビット・ホール』のニコール・キッドマンが熱演。災難に見舞われることできずなを深めていく一家と、逆に混乱する一味の心理戦に息が詰まる
キラー・エリート
Martin
元SAS隊員による実話をジェイソン・ステイサム、クライヴ・オーウェン、ロバート・デ・ニーロ共演で映像化したド迫力アクション。師匠の危機に再び仕事を引き受けた元凄腕の殺し屋が、衝撃の事実を知ることに……。
Needle
Detective Meares
College student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, he must find the killer.
アニマル・キングダム
Andrew 'Pope' Cody
母の死により、祖母に引き取られることになった17歳のジョシュア。だが祖母の家はさまざまな凶悪犯罪により生計を立てていた……。新鋭デヴィッド・ミショッド監督が、実在の犯罪一家をモデルに放つクライム・ドラマ。
Beautiful Kate
Ned Kendall
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
$9.99
Lenny Peck (voice)
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
ノウイング
Phil Bergman
1959年、マサチューセッツ州レキシントンのとある小学校では創立記念日を迎えようとしていた。この小学校の生徒の一人、ルシンダの提案が評価され、みんなでタイムカプセルを埋めることになる。それぞれが思い思いに描いた『絵』をその中に閉じ込めて。50年後、それは予定通り掘り起こされた。この小学校に通う少年ケイレブは、不可解な数字で埋め尽くされた一枚の紙を持ち帰ってきた。彼の父親で宇宙物理学教授のジョンは、そこに記された数字の羅列が過去50年とこれから先に起きる未来の出来事を予言したものだと気づく。
Prime Mover
Johnnie
A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
オーストラリア
Captain Dutton
オーストラリアにやって来た英国貴族、レディ・サラ。亡夫の遺した土地を守るため、粗暴なカウボーイとともに1500頭の牛を売るべく長旅に出ることになり……。ニコール・キッドマン主演による壮大なラヴ・ストーリー。
Hunt Angels
Rupert Kathner
Filmmaking partners Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks are determined to get their films made by almost any means necessary. Set in the 1930s, this docudrama relates the moviemakers struggles to jump-start Australia's film industry.
ニュー・ワールド
Ben
1607年、北アメリカに流れ着いたイギリス船。彼らは〝新大陸〟を開拓しようと砦を造り始めるが、この地にはすでに、ネイティヴ・アメリカンたちが暮らしていた。ネイティヴとの交渉役を命じられたジョン・スミスは、王・ポウハタンに捕らえられ、王の美しい末娘、ポカホンタスに命を救われる。恋におち、急速に愛を深めてゆくスミスとポカホンタスだったが・・・。
Second Chance
Dr. Larry Stewart
A disgraced young Melbourne lawyer is sent to purgatory in Broome - and discovers a body, himself, and Paradise.
Black and White
Rupert Murdoch
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Alexander Hall
As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Additional Dialogue
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Mullet
Eddie 'Mullet' Maloney
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
バーティカル・リミット
Malcolm Bench
3年前、ロッククライミング中に起きた事故で、ピーターは妹と自身を救うため父親の命綱を切ることを決断した。妹はそれを許すことができない。ピーターは苦悩から逃れるために山を拒否し、写真家となり、妹は父親の夢を追って登山家となる。そして世界第二位の高峰K2登頂に挑んでいたが事故に遭った妹は標高8,000mでクレバスに閉じ込められてしまう。妹を救うために世界で最も恐れられている山、K2へ向かうことを決意する。
Sample People
John
Sample People is an upbeat dramatic thriller that follows four groups of Sydney-siders as they seek escape routes over one sweltering weekend. 'Len the dreamer' who stutters shyly just wants the gorgeous DJ Lush Puppy. Sem is a funky musician who has a premonition warning him that his girlfriend, Cleo, is in danger. He just wants to get them both out of their inner-city world. Andy is the charismatic drifter who's conned his way through life and stolen money from his boss, TT. He just wants to head up the coast with TT's girlfriend, Jess, but seems to be falling deeper into a love triangle of drugs and delusion. Finally, there's Joey, a TV affected homeboy, who reveals to his best friend Gus that he's got a gun and will use it sooner or later. The inevitable moment will arrive whin his violent gangster fantisies become reality. As the lives of our heroes become dramatically entwined, the consequences of their actions ricochet off each other.
Secret Men's Business
Doug Petersen
Secret Men's Business explores the relationships and issues of 4 school-friends reunited after the death of a beloved school teacher. During a weekend of sun, surf, girls, wives and late night reminiscing, the friends begin to deal with certain truths which have been ignored for some time. As relationships and issues are explored, the friends face their own personal challenges amidst a contempt bourne out of familiarity.
The Singer and the Swinger
Lee Gordon
The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.
Amy
Robert Buchanan
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
True Love and Chaos
Jerry
Hanif and Dean steal a cache of drugs from Dean's psychotic brother Jerry, and at the last minute get a lift with Mimi as she decides to drive to Perth. They pick up a drunken singer, Morris, as they cross the country, chased by Jerry.
Cosi
Lewis
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Idiot Box
Kev
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
Sirens
Lewis
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.
Metal Skin
Dazey
Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol and best friend. Soon after, Joe falls for Savina, a goth girl who practices black magic. But Savina has already fallen for Dazey and will do anything to get him -- including using Joe's feelings for her. In true Shakespearean fashion, this trio race down the road to tragedy.
Say a Little Prayer
Nursery Manager
Seymour is a loner. A small, shy, introverted eleven year old whose parents are separated. By chance Seymour meets the beautiful, effervescent but drug-addicted Angie, who is also lonely and trapped in her own unhappy world. The relationship that develops offers strength to them both and through the highs and lows of a long hot summer they gradually learn to face the truth about each other and themselves.
Map of the Human Heart
Farmboy
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.
Spotswood
Carey
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
ブラッディ・ガン
O'Flynn
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
The Big Steal
Danny Clark
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Return Home
Gary
A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is struggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful career in a big business corporation.
Nirvana Street Murder
Luke
Two brothers become conflicted after one goes on the run and the other has an affair with a Greek woman and takes care of an old rich lady who could be their way out.
Lover Boy
Gazza
Explores the conflicting worlds of a teenager and a mature woman as they discover the full force of their sexuality.
The Year My Voice Broke
Trevor Leishman
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
The Still Point
Peter
Sarah, (Nadine Garner), a 15-year-old girl, who has a hearing impairment, is entering a crisis period in her life. Her future depends on the ability to emerge from the sheltered world her mother has created for her. In doing this she puts aside the self-imposed isolation of her deafness, and learns the value of her own identity.
Freaky Tales
Described as composed of four interconnected stories set in 1987 Oakland, CA. The movie is a love letter to the music, movies, sports, politics, people, places and memories — some true, some invented.