For Once In My Life Film

"Mixing wildly infections enthusiasm with a driving back-beat, this astonishing film will grab you by the heart. The 28-person band and chorus, the Spirit of Goodwill, just plain rocks, and the fact of their individual disabilities fades away quickly behind the band's extraordinary humor, tenacity and pure, raw talent. Long a much-loved local music group, the employee-band of South Florida Goodwill Industries gets an opportunity for big-time exposure when Miami Mayor Manny Diaz invites them to perform at the U.S. A mood of joyous chaos erupts; nothing this band has ever accomplished has been in a straight line. There are always seismic ups and downs in the process, all documented here by unsentimental hand-held cameras. But oh, wait until you hear this band get together to play, sing and rock the blues. The music is a glorious, unrelenting masterpiece of pain and joy."