Overview

Sent to a new school as his family hits economic and emotional hard times, a young Dubliner (Ferdia Walsh-Peedo) forms and fronts a ragtag band (the eponymous Sing Street) with classmates as English New Wave music crests in the 1980s. After overplaying their hand to impress a local girl, the band hustles to record songs in a makeshift living room studio. Beholden to the whims of older siblings’ varying tastes and the merry-go-round of stylish hairstyles, the band reinvents itself often (from Duran Duran to The Cure) while creating one-shot music videos to raise their visibility. The cheery result is like setting Son of Rambow to music and lyrics.