If I'm not the Monkees, who am I?

February 22, 2008 3:46 PM

Fake Beatle Filter: My friend dimly recalls (as he is wont to do) a mainstream movie with the following characteristics, centered around a fictitious British pop band. No, it's not the Monkees.

- He believes there were flocks of girls chasing this pop band around, ala Beatlemania.
- One of the songs performed in the movie made it into radio airplay.
- He thinks it must have come out in the last ten years or so.
- He thinks it may have been a drama of some kind, as opposed to a spoof.
- He thinks the word "About" may be in the title, but we all know how that goes.

Any clue what it was?

posted by lizzicide to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

Not the Rutles?
posted by Max Power at 3:47 PM on February 22, 2008

Best answer: That Thing You Do
posted by libraryhead at 3:48 PM on February 22, 2008

Best answer: That Thing You Do?
posted by stefanie at 3:48 PM on February 22, 2008

Best answer: That thing you do?
American, not British, but other than that...
posted by whatzit at 3:49 PM on February 22, 2008

There was another one, gads, I can picture them moving a piano in the back of a truck, a guy was playing it...
posted by Max Power at 3:50 PM on February 22, 2008

Response by poster: That thing you do! Awesome! Thank you guys!
posted by lizzicide at 3:51 PM on February 22, 2008

Max Power, the one you're thinking of is The Commitments.
posted by i_like_camels at 4:16 PM on February 22, 2008

i_like_camels and Max Power, 'the Commitments' was probably quoting the opening of the 1958 juvenile delinquent classic 'High School Confidential,' where Jerry Lee Lewis sings the title track and plays piano from the back of a truck
posted by doncoyote at 4:36 PM on February 22, 2008

This Is Spinal Tap?
posted by silkygreenbelly at 6:09 PM on February 22, 2008

Almost Famous? The band wasn't British, though.
posted by Acacia at 2:59 AM on February 23, 2008