It was nominated for two Golden Globes: Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (Paul Dano) and Best Original Song (' One Kind of Love'). It grossed $28.6 million over a $10 million budget and received positive reviews from critics, with Dano's performance garnering significant praise. Love and Mercy premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on Septem and was released by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on June 5, 2015. Ledbetter said that Landy's treatment of Wilson 'was even worse' than the film portrays. Some minor inaccuracies were noted by critics, a number of which relate to the minimal coverage devoted to Wilson's family and collaborators. Conversely, Landy's son Evan felt that his father was unfairly portrayed. The cast and crew maintained that nothing in the film was a 'Hollywood' embellishment and that everything was intended to be as truthful as possible. He had little involvement with its making, although Ledbetter was relied upon for the 1980s portions. Wilson called the film 'very factual', albeit containing parts that 'weren't actually as factual'.

The film alternates between Wilson's production of the album Pet Sounds (1966) and his treatment under Landy's 24-hour therapy program in the late 1980s. It stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as the young and middle-aged Wilson, with Elizabeth Banks as his second wife Melinda Ledbetter and Paul Giamatti as his psychologist Dr. Love & Mercy is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Bill Pohlad about the Beach Boys' co-founder and leader Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s.

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