Ebony & Ivory is the story of a 1981 meeting between Paul McCartney (Sky Elobar) and Stevie Wonder (Gil Gex) on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland to work on a new song.
The thing is, neither Elobar nor Gex look or act anything like their real-life counterparts. Both are horrible singers. Their tale doesn’t resemble any aspect of the famous duo’s real-life encounter. And, presumably because of rights issues, their full names are never uttered, and their signature collaboration “Ebony and Ivory,” which gives the film its title, is never heard. There isn’t even a piano in sight—although there are sheep, fried foods, and multiple penises bouncing and flopping in the wind.
Bearing no relationship to reality, The Greasy Strangler director Jim Hosking’s film, in theaters Aug. 8, is surrealist absurdity of the highest (or is that lowest?) order, a comedy that’s so unabashedly out there that it practically dares audiences to reject it.
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