The life of influential music producer and singer Pharrell Williams told through LEGO® animation. Piece by Piece invites you turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music’s most innovative minds. Directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville.
2024
Piece by Piece
Director
Morgan Neville
Runtime
93 Minutes
Country
United States
Classification
All Ages
Pharrell Williams meets LEGO.
Happy, Get Lucky, Drop It Like It’s Hot - Pharrell Williams’ discography is full of joyous, technicolour tunes. So why would his biopic be anything different?
Piece by Piece charts the life of influential music producer and singer Pharrell Williams through LEGO® animation. From his music-filled childhood to his first job at a record label and success in The Neptunes, Pharrell builds his own path to stardom by producing hits for Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and other musicians — who all feature in LEGO® form, of course.
Directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville and exploding with imagination and pop classics, Piece by Piece invites you turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music’s most innovative minds.
"Pharrell’s LEGO biopic deserves to be a blockbuster...The endlessly inventive musician gets an unlikely yet deserving biopic told via plastic bricks – a big swing that more than pays off...a hilarious, propulsive and disarmingly joyous ride."
The Guardian
"Morgan Neville’s animated Pharrell Williams doc inspires wonder."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Is it a documentary? A biopic? An animated movie? A musical? A character study? You bet — and more. Williams and Neville have taken it apart and put it all back together to perfection."
Deadline
Toronto
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Film Credits
Director
Morgan Neville
Year
2024
Country
United States
Language
English
Type
Feature & Fiction
Program Strand
Special Presentations & World Cinema
Producer
Pharrell Williams, Mimi Valdés, Morgan Neville & Caitrin Rogers
Editor
Jason Zeldes, Oscar Vasquez & Aaron Wickenden
Cast
Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, N.O.R.E, Pusha T., Daft Punk & Kendrick Lamar
Music
Pharrell Williams & Michael Andrews
Film Source
Universal Pictures Australasia
Genre
Animation, Biographical & Music
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