Plot
A documentary on Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the new singer for the rock & roll band, Journey.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 5.2/10 (81 voted)
Director:Ramona S. Diaz
Storyline
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey follows the real life rock-n-roll fairy tale story of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from You Tube to become the front man for iconic American rock band, Journey, thereby becoming the latest performer to go from the Internet to real life celebrity. Having already overcome a life full of painful obstacles and now saddled with the immense pressures of leading a world renowned band and replacing a legendary singer, the film follows Arnel on this personal journey.
Taglines:
A snapshot of Journey at this moment in its 30-year history, 2008, as it emerges with a new lead singer.
Whew, just in time. If you're a hard core Gleek you already know how
awesome Journey is. When the band needed to find a new lead singer to
replace Steve Perry, little did they know they would become
international icons of world peace and all things warm and fuzzy. Thus
begins a real life fairy tale. Our story begins with Arnel, living an
impoverished life in Manila. This is serious unrelenting poverty. When
his mother died the family spun out of control. They had to sell their
television, fridge, and furniture in exchange for her medical care.
When the money ran out they were kicked out of their home. Dad took the
two younger kids and at age thirteen Arnel was on his own. He would
sing at funerals for biscuits, sleeping in the park with the other
homeless kids. Eventually Arnel got a gig singing with a Journey
tribute band. On the other side of the globe, dinking around YouTube,
Journey's lead guitarist Neil discovers our young signer, pops him an
email and poof, off Arnel goes on a plane to LA. He gets the job. Fast
forward to his first gig in 2008 in front of 18,000 people plus 25
million South Americans grooving to the live simulcast. We shadow Arnel
as he works through his total fear, not that you would know watching
him. He never ran out of air while singing, jumping and running for joy
around the stage. Arnel can now buy his family a nice home in the
Philippines, bringing them all together again. We see that his values
are solid. It's all about family, no room for the excesses that take
down so many American stars. Arnel speaks to the camera, telling us
that life is full of mystery, he lives in a castle now, all is well,
problems will come and go. You gain, you lose, that's how life is. This
guy is for real. This story is real. What a high to know that Arnel is
out there somewhere in the world, still touring and putting smiles on
thousands of faces. I don't think there's a word for ennui in the
Filipino language.
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