A second chance in life doesn't come easy. But when it does come, will you take it or let it slip away again? British director Eddie Sternberg's feature debut I Used To Be Famous is a musical drama about a South London fairytale that involves a culture clash between a washed-up singer and a musically talented young man with autism who form an odd friendship and go on a musical venture in hope of a new chance in life.
The premise of I Used To Be Famous is simple and straightforward. It's basically Hugh Grant's Music And Lyrics (2007), but without the rom-com. This new Netflix movie is predictable, but that's not entirely bad as it doesn't try too hard to be anything more than a simple story about two people bonding and going through the hardships of their professional and personal lives. And it does its job quite well in this regard.
