For while both share a familiar, million-selling Diamond favourite as their title, and barely 10 minutes ever pass before another banger graces the soundtrack of writer-director Craig Brewer’s film, the music is largely a backdrop to a beautiful, big-hearted, blue-collar love story – with a shocking fork in the road along the way.
She supplements her meagre hairdresser income by belting out the hits of country star Patsy Cline, while he’s more a jack(man) of all trades calling himself Lightning (“Chuck Berry, Barry Manilow and The Beatles rolled into one”) but, despite often being told he looks like Neil Diamond, he’s reluctant to take on the songs and persona of a man he regards as a hero.
Romance blossoms (fast), the couple marry and settle into a life of domestic bliss with Claire’s kids and occasional visits by Mike’s daughter from his first marriage, because this is not a film about fame-hungry musicians reaching for the stars.
Everything in the garden is rosy, until a freak accident lands Claire in hospital, mothballing the singing act and leaving them drowning in huge medical bills, their future uncertain.
Jackman establishes Mike’s good guy credentials early, the kind of man everyone likes and will do anything for (including Michael Imperioli’s aging Buddy Holly impersonator and Jim Belushi’s wonderfully comic, weepy gig promoter), facing his family’s upheavals with a pragmatism learned from past challenges as, first, a soldier and then an alcoholic.
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His charisma glows on the screen in every frame, and Hudson leaves an even deeper impression in her portrayal of a woman whose world is turned upside down, spiralling into depression and a slave to her medication; it’s hard to name a film in which she’s better.
Also deserving of a shout-out are King Princess and Ella Anderson as, respectively, Mike’s and Claire’s world-wise teenage daughters, and Hudson Hensley as Claire’s younger son, giving the Sardina homestead a three-dimensional, credible family dynamic rarely seen on screen since Roseanne Barr’s ordinary people sitcom of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
“Good times never seemed so good,” Neil Diamond sang on the evergreen Sweet Caroline, and this is a film where even the bad ones can be overcome on the path to something brighter.
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